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Subject: Re: Cache Memory in top command
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On 09/29/2010 08=3A50 AM=2C vyaaghrah-nix=40yahoo=2Ecom wrote=3A
=3E Hi Adam
=3E
=3E It gets me to this following explanation
=3E
=3E Cache=3A number of pages used for VM-level disk caching
=3E
=3E I am not sure what is VM-Level disk caching=3F
=3E Further it does not answer how this value is calculated for a system=2E=

=3E
=3E  =20
=3E=3E How is Cache memory in the following output calculated=2C on Free BS=
D system=2E
=3E=3E
=3E=3E    =20
=3E man 1 top
=3E
=3E  =20

 *Cache=3A* number of clean pages caching data that are available for  imme=
diate reallocation
http=3A//www=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/cgi/man=2Ecgi=3Fquery=3Dtop=26sektion=3D1 =3Ch=
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