Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:36:12 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inactive memory Message-ID: <20050208213612.GA29063@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <810a540e050208133310333144@mail.gmail.com> References: <810a540e050208133310333144@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:33:14PM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote: > I've always got a lot of inactive memory on my machine, around 520MB > or so. While doing a portupgrade, the free memory dropped to around > 13MB. I'm just curious what exactly the inactive memory is. Will the > OS use the inactive memory before dipping into swap? Or is that > memory off limits now? If so, is there any way to free it up? I've > got 1GB total on the machine. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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