From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 7:54: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336B237BC1F for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 07:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (root@rac6.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.146]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07386; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:54:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA27066; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:53:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27059; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:53:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac6.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:53:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Harry Newton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is active/inactive memory (was Re: memory leak?) In-Reply-To: <86aeg3uxy0.fsf@chimaera.locus> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 > >> > > [...] > > 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