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Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:20:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
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Subject: Q: Inactive vs. free memory?
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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


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