FreeBSD not giving back memory

[edward]

I use a Superkaramba applet.
Edward

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
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> On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:32 AM, edward wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> I use 5.4 Stable on an i386 machine with xorg 6.8.2 and kde 3.4.0.  I 
>> have been doing a number of RAM intensive tasks such as  converting 
>> video files and moving big files (7 or 8 Gb) back and  forth over a 
>> LAN. I have also installed and configured Wine,  although I haven't 
>> done much with it just yet. I have 26 Gb on my  FreeBSD partition 
>> (excluding swap) that is used up at 78%.
>> I notice that when quitting all applications, the RAM used is not  
>> released and 476 Mb of RAM out of 512 Mb available are still  
>> indicated as being in use. Is FreeBSD not giving back memory when  
>> processes are over ?
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> How are you determining this?
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> Chad
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>> Edward
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