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On 2005-11-11 12:28, Gobbledegeek <gobbledegeek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> What does the memory row in top command mean by Inactive,Wired,Cached ??

You can find out a lot of details about these fields and the
design of the virtual memory subsystem of the FreeBSD kernel at:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/