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Old 19th May 2008
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"Free" RAM is wasted RAM. FreeBSD caches everything that gets read to or written from harddrives in RAM, in case the data needs to be read again. The VM system in FreeBSD also tries not to swap things out to disk unless absolutely necessary (compared to Linux where it swaps things out quite often). If an app needs more RAM, memory in the cache is freed for use by the app.

IOW, unless your system is using a lot of swap, everything is running correctly.

Note: Please tone down the obscenities. They do not make you look smart or professional, and make people not want to read your messages. You'll get a lot more (and faster, and better) responses without them.
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