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On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:19:41PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:

> i just upgraded to the new phpsysinfo rc2, and it shows more detailed 
> information about what the memory usage is doing.  it shows that 1.57GB is 
> being used by buffers.  what is the significance of 1.57GB of memory being 
> used by 'buffers'?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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