From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 10:05:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04955 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wolf.com (ns1.wolf.com [207.137.58.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA04940 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:04:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@wolf.com) Received: (qmail 28416 invoked by uid 100); 26 Oct 1998 18:12:51 -0000 Message-ID: <19981026101250.A23438@ns1.wolf.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:12:50 -0800 From: Dan Mahoney To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Questions re. "wired" memory Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I run 'top' on my 3.0-SNAP-980825 machine I see that of my 128 MB RAM I've got 16 M active, 22 M inactive, 20 M wired, 65M cache, 8M in buffer, and about a MB free. I've looked at the man page for top and seen that "wired" means "number of pages wired down, including cached file data pages". Could someone explain what this really means, or where I can find out what it means? FWIW, I'm running this machine as a web server (Apache 1.3.2). Dan Mahoney dan@wolf.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message