Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 11:38:11 +0000 (GMT) From: ee96199@tom.fe.up.pt To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory usage Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970514113341.14208A-100000@tom.fe.up.pt> In-Reply-To: <199705132330.QAA18420@implode.root.com>
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >can someone explain this top output to me? > > > >Mem: 64M Active, 23M Inact, 21M Wired, 15M Cache, 8332K Buf, 176K Free > >Swap: 262M Total, 42M Used, 220M Free, 16% Inuse This is also one of my greatest questions with FreeBSD's top. > The important figure is "cache". In 2.1.x, cache+free can be used as a rough > indicator of the amount of available memory. However, also note that your > swap usage is fairly high...this probably means that you are near the max and > should get more memory before increasing the ftp limit higher. And with 2.2.x? Since you, David, are the Principal Architect could you explain with some detail what these values mean? > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > Jorge PS: I was going to mail a question like this to this mailing list... but someone asked it first... :-) This is really a big World!
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