On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, lattera wrote:

> I've noticed that after fifteen days of uptime, that all of my 2gig
> physical mem has been used up. I did a top sorted by residual size,
> which can be found at http://lattera.antitech.org/nbsd_top.txt, and
> saw that the kernel processes are each taking up 380mb.
>
> vmstat -m output: http://lattera.antitech.org/nbsd_vmstat.txt
>
> Any reasons why this is happening? Any way I can tone down the kernel
> to not gradually fill up mem?

No. You are observing the correct behaviour. All memory (more or less)
will be filled up always. There is nothing you can do about it, and it
generally isn't a bad idea.
Better put that unused memory to some use instead of letting it sit
unused.
The disk cache takes advantage of it.

	Johnny

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