From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 2 22:06:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18999 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fire.starkreality.com (fire.starkreality.com [208.24.48.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18973 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from caesar@starkreality.com) Received: from armageddon (armageddon.starkreality.com [208.24.48.227]) by fire.starkreality.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA01332 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 00:05:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from caesar@starkreality.com) Message-Id: <4.1.19981102235947.052f0100@fire.starkreality.com> X-Sender: caesar@fire.starkreality.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 00:05:40 -0600 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "William S. Duncanson" Subject: Err...something fishy going on in top. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I rebuilt world a couple of hours ago, from a cvsup at around 8:30 CST tonight. When I rebooted, the box seemed slower than it should have been. To make a long story short, in the process of doing stuff, I noticed that whenever there's heavy disk i/o, instead of the amount of memory dedicated to cache increasing, the amount of memory being listed as inactive was increasing. Huh? I'm confused. Right now, it looks like none of my memory is being used for file cacheing, even though I have > 32 MB free. What am I missing? William S. Duncanson caesar@starkreality.com The driving force behind the NC is the belief that the companies who brought us things like Unix, relational databases, and Windows can make an appliance that is inexpensive and easy to use if they choose to do that. -- Scott Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message