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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 00:55:57 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>, Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help
Message-ID:  <20010309005557.A6561@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103090126.f291QLO05885@earth.backplane.com>; from "Matt Dillon" on Thu Mar  8 17:26:21 GMT 2001
References:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103051732370.6833-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> <200103060208.f2628PT49635@earth.backplane.com> <20010308213722.A83857@skriver.dk> <200103090126.f291QLO05885@earth.backplane.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 08), Matt Dillon said:
> Jesper Skriver wrote:
> :Could you please give a pointer to a description of the meaning of
> :Active, Inactive and Cache, on a machine I see this
> 
>     Active	This queue represents pages that are in active use by
> 		programs.  The pages may be clean or dirty.
[snip excellent explanation]

Hey, can we get this into a manpage, like vm(9) or something?  Jesper's
question is definitely a FAQ, and it'd be nice to point people to some
official documentation.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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