Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:34:39 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: random junk <jsd@gamespot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: explain top Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970328183438.00c501f8@mixcom.com>
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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-)
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Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator
jeff@mixcom.net
MIX Communications
Serving the Internet since 1990
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