Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:33:16 -0400 From: Micah Bushouse <bushous2@msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Inact v. Free Memory Message-ID: <4075468C.4070603@msu.edu>
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I have a quick question regarding the differences between Inactive and Free memory. Context: I'm running 4.9 stable as a desktop machine. Right after a fresh reboot most of the system memory shows up as Free (using top). Then, after a few hours of work... running X, web browsers, and the like, most appears in Inact. My question is... after I shut down all programs, ctrl alt backspace X, and get back to a terminal, why does top still show all the memory just freed by my desktop programs as inactive? Please see my attached top_output.txt. You'll notice that after adding up all the memory in the programs that are still running, the total doesn't come close to reaching 308M Inact. Thanks, Micahhome | help
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