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Date:      31 Aug 2002 12:07:39 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I have Inactive Memory?! not just free..but inactive
Message-ID:  <44y9anovuc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020831061817.GA12937@houston.rr.com>
References:  <20020831061817.GA12937@houston.rr.com>

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Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com> writes:

> 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?

No.  Please read the FAQ.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM

> Also from 'top':
> "CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle"
> 
> Question, Does the 'GENERIC' kernel conf omit any cpu-monitoring options? If so, what should i do to remedy this?

No, it doesn't.  Most often, this is a problem of mismatched userland
and kernel.  I seem to recall a case where there was an actual bug in
the relevant code, but that was fixed a while back.

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