Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:20:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: FreeBDS-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Q: Inactive vs. free memory? Message-ID: <20011021141444.T305-100000@mail.radzinschi.com>
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Hello: I am confused by the inactive and free readings given by top. I certainly understand the free part, but what is the inactive memory being used for? Below is a typical top reading on a box with 256 MB of RAM. Mem: 26M Active, 174M Inact, 23M Wired, 11M Cache, 35M Buf, 16M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free Could anyone clarify what FreeBSD is doing with the 174MB of inactive memory? Thanks, Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy Running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 2:14PM up 23 mins, 2 users, load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 0.83 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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