From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 23:18:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACCC37B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 23:18:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houston.rr.com (cs2417481-85.houston.rr.com [24.174.81.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A439A43E65 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 23:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mystical@houston.rr.com) Received: from houston.rr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by houston.rr.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7V6IHwv012973 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:18:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mystical@houston.rr.com) Received: (from mystical@localhost) by houston.rr.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7V6IHwx012972 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:18:17 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:18:17 -0500 From: Joseph Lephan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: I have Inactive Memory?! not just free..but inactive Message-ID: <20020831061817.GA12937@houston.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG heres a little snippet from my 'top': "Mem: 151M Active, 194M Inact, 69M Wired, 24M Cache, 61M Buf, 62M Free" Y? Why is 194M inactive? I'm not too familiar with the other categories, but 'inactive'sends a tingle up my spine Is inactive memory similar to reserved memory? Also from 'top': "CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle" Now, I've posted a query on my weird cpu usage/monitoring, but no one seemed to care less, or have any opinions on the matter Question, Does the 'GENERIC' kernel conf omit any cpu-monitoring options? If so, what should i do to remedy this? Sorry about the excessive amount of spaces, but i just received an email from freebsd.org requesting that questions should be posted this way. Hope this doesn't turn anyone off Sincerely, BSD enthusiast To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message