Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:53:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Harry Newton <harry_newton@telinco.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is active/inactive memory (was Re: memory leak?) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006301053090.26848-100000@rac6.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <86aeg3uxy0.fsf@chimaera.locus>
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All I know is that's it's memory that can't be freed for one reason or another... I think it's where the kernel keeps all it's data structures and such... ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On 30 Jun 2000, Harry Newton wrote: > >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> writes: > > [...] > > >> Then be careful of those trick questions which just bit me :) > >> After all, strictly speaking, there is no single concept in the > >> kernel of what "active" memory is, which you can see in > >> <sys/vmmeter.h> > > [...] > > But what's wired memory ? In some sense the other types > (active/inactive/cache/buffer) are probably what one would expect from > their names, but wired ... ? > > > -- > Harry Newton > harry_newton@telinco.co.uk > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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