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Old 16th January 2009
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Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
When I ran KDE3, top often showed high levels of memory usage even at idle, and I frequently 'abuse' my system in terms of how much load she can handle, but rarely ever have performance issues
The thing to remember is FreeBSD is going to try to use whatever memory you have. E.g., I have 2G RAM in my laptop and it is basically idle right now with KDE4 running and a few other apps. Top says:
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Mem: 476M Active, 1034M Inact, 223M Wired, 85M Cache, 112M Buf, 174M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free
So while only 174M is free, only 476M is active. The only time I would worry about memory usage is when the swap is being used excessively or at all for that matter. That said, my old box only had 512MB RAM and it did pretty well running FreeBSD with KDE 3. I think FreeBSD does a pretty good job of managing memory.
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