Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:38:19 -0400 From: "Mark Dickey" <mark@bestweb.net> To: "Spidey" <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>, "Questions=answers" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mysterious Top output Message-ID: <01bdb3ec$09a36980$296f5ed1@immortal.bestweb.net>
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Ok, I'm not sure if I'm just crazy but: If you have a total of 32 megs of ram and 13 megs are active 3 megs are inactive 8 megs are wired 4 megs are cached 1 meg is free This equals: +32 -13 -03 -08 -04 -01 ----- +03 FreeBSD, I think, is pretty smart, so instead of using all the RAM, it leaves some free and takes swap instead. If it is still like this, do a top and give us the complete output, that way we can see if the numbers seem reasonable to what is running. If a backup script or something like that is running, it could easily take a lot of memory (This depends on how it does what :-) ) Mark Dickey mark@bestweb.net -----Original Message----- From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 5:37 AM Subject: Mysterious Top output >Hi everybody! > >I have a: >CPU: Pentium (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping=3 > Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX> >real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) >avail memory = 30969856 (30244K bytes) > >Now it is clearly mentionned there that I have 32Mb of ram or so... > >why is top giving me this: >last pid: 1575; load averages: 1.28, 1.24, 1.16 09:28:42 >37 processes: 2 running, 35 sleeping >CPU states: 16.2% user, 0.0% nice, 32.7% system, 1.1% interrupt, 50.0% idle >Mem: 13M Active, 3448K Inact, 8376K Wired, 4460K Cache, 3570K Buf, 1784K Free >Swap: 74M Total, 37M Used, 37M Free, 50% Inuse > >i got alomost 16Mb of provesses going on here, why is my swap space used >at 37Mb??? > >How 'bout a little ride through your own world? >http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran/ > >Spidey > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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