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Date:      Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:50:27 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Rob DeMarco <r.p.demarco@att.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20041202045027.GA43428@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041202044145.80CCB43D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20041202044145.80CCB43D39@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:41:44AM +0000, Rob DeMarco wrote:

>     Thanks for the info.  The thing that got my attention was how,
> after enough processes were spawned and (presumably, some of the cache
> could have been used before needing to page) the 10M remained for use for
> the "Buf" only -- or at least it seemed like it according to `top'.
> But maybe I'm misreading that (I seemed to remember reading that
> the "Wired" info always included the "Buf")  But then I am
> definitely way out of my league here.  I can't even make sense out
> of the SIZE / RES columns, neither which seem to add up to the actual
> memory/swap used.

It's just a count of the amount of memory currently in use, not a
fixed amount assigned to different uses.

Kris

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