Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 23:48:59 -0700 (PDT) From: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> To: Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have Inactive Memory?! not just free..but inactive Message-ID: <20020831064859.72999.qmail@web12904.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020831061817.GA12937@houston.rr.com>
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--- Joseph Lephan <mystical@houston.rr.com> wrote: > heres a little snippet from my 'top': > "Mem: 151M Active, 194M Inact, 69M Wired, 24M Cache, > 61M Buf, 62M Free" > > Y? Why is 194M inactive? I'm not too familiar with > the other categories, but 'inactive'sends a tingle > up my spine > > Is inactive memory similar to reserved memory? from a recent post on the NetBSD Lists(The first thing google showed -: No, You have 8.3MB Active memory (pages that were accessed in some recent interval) 7.1MB Inactive memory (pages allocated, but not accessed in some recent interval. These are good candidates for writing to swap if memory starts to get tight) 2.5MB Wired down (I think these are pages which cannot be swapped out because they are involved in some form of I/O activity -- there may be other reasons, or I may be wrong on this one). 11MB Free (not allocated to something). > > Also from 'top': > "CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, > 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle" > > Now, I've posted a query on my weird cpu > usage/monitoring, but no one seemed to care less, or > have any opinions on the matter > Question, Does the 'GENERIC' kernel conf omit any > cpu-monitoring options? If so, what should i do to > remedy this? > I have no reasons why top may be not displaying CPU info. It's never happened to me. Having the Kernel built on a different version sources to top is still the most likely candidate, esp if you've used any two of cvs, make Kernel, make world. > Sorry about the excessive amount of spaces, but i > just received an email from freebsd.org requesting > that questions should be posted this way. > Hope this doesn't turn anyone off > > Sincerely, BSD enthusiast Nope, your email looked great. Mine, from Yahoo, will probably be thouroughy horrid, though. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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