On Thu, 27 May 2010 11:52:15 +0200 Coert <lgro...@waagmeester.co.za> wrote:
> Hello all, > > Just a question, on Linux the output of top's memory usage looks like > this: > > Mem: 2075424k total, 1760848k used, 314576k free, 151872k > buffers Swap: 4192924k total, 0k used, 4192924k free, > 1214052k cached > > > on FreeBSD: > > Mem: 48M Active, 945M Inact, 190M Wired, 112M Buf, 804M Free > Swap: 4063M Total, 4063M Free This is missing Cache > I have looked at the respective man pages, and googled. > Where can I find out what Active, Inactive, and Wired mean? Active, Inact, Cache , and Free are all part of the same VM lifecycle. When the system need to allocate memory it comes from cache or free. Wired memory wont be paged-out. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
