Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 12:56:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Mahoney <dmahoney@pe.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: "Top" shows large amount of "inact" RAM Message-ID: <199910021956.MAA21292@smtp.pe.net>
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I have been watching the output of "top" on my FreeBSD 3.2 system, and I was wondering if anyone could help me undestand a little better? 'top" currently shows 318 M active, 113 inactive, 51 M wired, 13M cache, 8341 K buff, 2744K free (this is on a dual-CPU system with 512 MB phyiscal RAM). I also see 668K out of 512 M of swap in use. Here's my confusion: shouldn't the inactive RAM be getting cleared out and reused, instead of starting to hit the swap space? Or is my understanding of the process unclear? I *did* check the mailing list archives, but all I got out of that was a little more confusion. It appears that a couple other folks have asked very similar questions over the last two or three weeks, but without a clear resolution that I can see. Dan Mahoney dmahoney@pe.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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