From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 28 16:40:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17859 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:40:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA17848 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 16:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id SAA05901; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:42:49 -0600 Received: from p75.mixcom.com(198.137.186.25) by mixcom.mixcom.com via smap (V1.3) id sma005896; Sat Mar 29 00:42:42 1997 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970328183438.00c501f8@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:34:39 -0600 To: random junk From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: explain top Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:02 AM 3/28/97 -0800, random junk wrote: >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? Do a vmstat and I'll bet you see about 49Mb free. Web server running by chance? The system likes to cache things and it seems works very well with Apache. Also 'man top' for details. 8-) ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990