Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 00:10:47 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" <jg@thilelli.net> To: jesse@clatsopwebdesign.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's method of displaying ram usage in top Message-ID: <1851.192.168.0.97.1053382247.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <001201c31e52$6fd77a90$6701a8c0@bigblackhole> References: <20030519190350.8F65E37B404@hub.freebsd.org> <001201c31e52$6fd77a90$6701a8c0@bigblackhole>
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> Now on a FreeBSD box with a much smaller traffic load and much faster > hardware (which should thus have more RAM free) I get this response > under top: > > Mem: 191M Active, 583M Inact, 191M Wired, 31M Cache, 112M Buf, 5952K > Free > > Now what does the FreeBSD version of top mean by inactive memory? This > has For a good introduction and explaination of the different information given by top(1), you can look at "http://www.absolutebsd.com/AbsoluteBSD18.pdf" from M.W. Lucas. -- -jg.
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