From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 29 22:38:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0615714C9F for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA18885; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:57:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:57:24 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Fadi Sodah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: command-top In-Reply-To: <372890EE.B6A1C61F@qatar.net.qa> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Fadi Sodah wrote: > Fadi Sodah wrote: > > when i run the command top, it reported > > ... > > CPU states:2.7% user, 0.0%, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 95.4% idle > > Mem: 80M Active, 7548K Inact, 16M Wired, 8339 Buf, 22M Free > > ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ > > Swap: 266M Total, 64K Used, 266M Free > > .... > > > > can you pls explain to me the line regarding the memory stuff: > > Mem: 80M Active, 7548K Inact, 16M Wired, 8339 Buf, 22M Free > > i looked at man top... > > but i cant understand the meaning of 'number of pages'... :/ > i'm not sure about the word 'page'. a "page" generally refers to the minimum size chunk of memory an archetecture can support memory operations on such as protection. in i386 it's 4 kilobytes per page. check out a book on machine level programming or operating system design. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message