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To: "James E. Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net>
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Subject: Re: Inactive vs. free Memory
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From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com>
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"James E. Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net> writes:

> Just for my infomation.  What is the difference between "Inactive" and
> "Free" memory.  Right now top says I have 157M Inact and 3260K Free.

Inactive means the page contains valid data belonging to some file,
but is not mapped into any address space. Free means, the page doesn't
contain valid data.

	-Arun


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