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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
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Subject: Re: where did all my memory go?
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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