Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:17:31 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com> Cc: "James E. Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inactive vs. free Memory Message-ID: <19990615171731.P71377@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <m3hfo9v4r4.fsf@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com>; from Arun Sharma on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:54:23AM -0700 References: <37664291.C2A45247@thehousleys.net> <m3hfo9v4r4.fsf@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com>
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On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:54:23AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > "James E. Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net> writes: > > > Just for my infomation. What is the difference between "Inactive" and > > "Free" memory. Right now top says I have 157M Inact and 3260K Free. > > Inactive means the page contains valid data belonging to some file, > but is not mapped into any address space. Free means, the page doesn't > contain valid data. Thanks Arun, This has been bugging us for ages :) At last it's clear <yippee> Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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