From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 20:14:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A857837B405 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id 6954D62D10; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:14:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:14:56 -0500 From: GH To: Mario Doria Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: A simple question Message-ID: <20010807221456.Q48649@over-yonder.net> References: <003101c10b4d$fd19ac30$0a00a8c0@Valk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <003101c10b4d$fd19ac30$0a00a8c0@Valk>; from madd@tecdigital.net on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:43:21PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:43:21PM -0500, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > Hi, > > Just curious, when I run top I get messages like this: > Mem: 28M Active, 647M Inact, 43M Wired, 33M Cache, 86M Buf, 1528K Free > Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free > > > What does the inactive part mean? Shouldn't it be freed? I'm not sure if this is covered anywhere, but...no. From what I understand, "inactive" simply means it is not active. The memory is not being used by currently "running" programs. Don't take my word for it, except that it shouldn't be freed. > Anyway, thanks > Mario Daniel M. Kurry -- > What, no one sings along with Ricky Martin anymore? My kid sister does (but then, she prefers pico to vi ...) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian, alt.sysadmin.recovery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message