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From: Andre Albsmeier <andre@nemesis.de>
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Subject: Please explain wired, buffered and cached mem
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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:16:19 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

would somebody be so kind to explain the differences between
wired, buffered and cached memory as they appear in top?
I can guess what is meant by physical and free :-) but have no 
exact idea what the others are...

Or is there a doc which explains this a little?

Thanks very much in advance...

	-Andre