From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 8 22:56: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C640637B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:56:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f296tvF18394; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 00:55:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 00:55:57 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Matt Dillon Cc: Jesper Skriver , Dan Phoenix , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help Message-ID: <20010309005557.A6561@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200103060208.f2628PT49635@earth.backplane.com> <20010308213722.A83857@skriver.dk> <200103090126.f291QLO05885@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: <200103090126.f291QLO05885@earth.backplane.com>; from "Matt Dillon" on Thu Mar 8 17:26:21 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message