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Date:      Tue, 20 May 2003 00:10:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Julien Gabel" <jg@thilelli.net>
To:        jesse@clatsopwebdesign.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's method of displaying ram usage in top
Message-ID:  <1851.192.168.0.97.1053382247.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net>
In-Reply-To: <001201c31e52$6fd77a90$6701a8c0@bigblackhole>
References:  <20030519190350.8F65E37B404@hub.freebsd.org>  <001201c31e52$6fd77a90$6701a8c0@bigblackhole>

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> Now on a FreeBSD box with a much smaller traffic load and much faster
> hardware (which should thus have more RAM free) I get this response
> under top:
>
> Mem: 191M Active, 583M Inact, 191M Wired, 31M Cache, 112M Buf, 5952K
> Free
>
> Now what  does the FreeBSD version of top mean by inactive memory? This
> has

For a good introduction and explaination of the different information given
by top(1), you can look at "http://www.absolutebsd.com/AbsoluteBSD18.pdf"
from M.W. Lucas.

-- 
-jg.



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