Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:24:20 -0500 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre@nemesis.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please explain wired, buffered and cached mem Message-ID: <19970912182420.58570@gaffaneys.com> In-Reply-To: <199709122216.AAA23837@kahless.snake.de>; from Andre Albsmeier on Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 12:16:19AM %2B0200 References: <199709122216.AAA23837@kahless.snake.de>
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On Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 12:16:19AM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > 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... Wired -> memory locked in core. Cache -> filesystem cache. Buf -> block device cache? > Or is there a doc which explains this a little? The top(1) page explains a little, but it isn't very helpful if you don't already know the meaning of the various terms.
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