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From: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net>
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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Wheres all my memory going? 
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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Mike Smith wrote:

> > Mem: 242M Active, 50M Inact, 26M Wired, 34M Cache, 1726K Buf, 152M Free
> > Swap: 64M Total, 53M Used, 11M Free, 83% Inuse
> ...
> > And that just does now add up!!! (Yes, named is supposed to be that large,
> > but it's no-where near the total memory of the machine)
> 
> Yes it does: 242 + 50 + 26 + 34 + 1.762 + 152 ~= 512.

But if theres 152MB of free memory then why is it ever pushing stuff out
into swap???

Gordon