From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 15 9:17:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262A0152F8 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:17:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) id RAA71552; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:17:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:17:31 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Arun Sharma Cc: "James E. Housley" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inactive vs. free Memory Message-ID: <19990615171731.P71377@pavilion.net> References: <37664291.C2A45247@thehousleys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Arun Sharma on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:54:23AM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:54:23AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > "James E. Housley" 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. Thanks Arun, This has been bugging us for ages :) At last it's clear Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message