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From: "Mario Doria" <madd@tecdigital.net>
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Subject: A simple question
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:43:21 -0500
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Hi,

Just curious, when I run top I get messages like this:
Mem: 28M Active, 647M Inact, 43M Wired, 33M Cache, 86M Buf, 1528K Free
Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free


What does the inactive part mean? Shouldn't it be freed?

Anyway, thanks


Mario


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