Date: 15 Jun 1999 08:54:23 -0700 From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com> To: "James E. Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inactive vs. free Memory Message-ID: <m3hfo9v4r4.fsf@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: "James E. Housley"'s message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 08:09:53 -0400" References: <37664291.C2A45247@thehousleys.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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