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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:32:58 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: where did all my memory go?
Message-ID:  <20050216213258.GA38172@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050216212844.GA28790@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <1108584730.95661.12.camel@server.mcneil.com> <4213B3C8.3090508@centtech.com> <1108588393.12275.9.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20050216212844.GA28790@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:28:44PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 01:13:13PM -0800, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > 
> > I would have to dispute this fact.  Any disk cache should not be
> > assigned to inactive user pages.  It should be, IMHO, cache or buffer
> > memory.  In my original email, the vmstat -m output would support this:
> > 
> 
> Read
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm.html
> if you still have question then post away.
> 

You'll also want to read 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/index.html


-- 
Steve



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