Strange networking behaviour (memory leak?)

[Bill Moran]

Adam wrote:
>>FreeBSD is pretty smart about memory.  In the top display you see active,
>>inactive, cache, buffer, wired, and free memory.  The memory that's actually
>>free is really the sum of inactive, buffer, cache, and free.  The free
>>memory is free immediately, those other three can become free with very,
>>very little effort on the part of the kernel, but if you call up the same
>>application again and it's still in inactive memory, it'll start up quicker
>>than if it has to reload it from disk.
>>Free memory is wasted memory.
> 
> Wow, thanks for the clarifications (and education). I actually very glad
> you explained this to me. You'll have to excuse my ignorance on some
> topics; my lack of experience is sometimes glaringly obvious.

Don't worry about it.  If you search the list archives, I think you'll see
me asking the same question a number of years ago, and getting a similarly
helpful answer.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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