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Date:      Fri, 28 Mar 1997 11:02:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      random junk <jsd@gamespot.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   explain top
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970328110533.jsd@gamespot.com>

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i can't make any sort of sense out of top's output.  in particular, these lines
confuse me:

Mem: 19M Active, 1944K Inact, 7120K Wired, 49M Cache, 8240K Buf, 128K Free
Swap: 131M Total, 5968K Used, 125M Free, 5% Inuse

when this machine boots, it says:

real memory  = 83886080 (81920K bytes)
Physical memory hole(s):
avail memory = 79245312 (77388K bytes)

so, about 77 meg of RAM available.  how is that i only have 19M active and 128K
free?

i really just don't understand what top is telling me, i guess.  any tips
appreciated.

Jon Drukman                                              jsd@gamespot.com
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