On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:41:44AM +0000, Rob DeMarco wrote: > Thanks for the info. The thing that got my attention was how, > after enough processes were spawned and (presumably, some of the cache > could have been used before needing to page) the 10M remained for use for > the "Buf" only -- or at least it seemed like it according to `top'. > But maybe I'm misreading that (I seemed to remember reading that > the "Wired" info always included the "Buf") But then I am > definitely way out of my league here. I can't even make sense out > of the SIZE / RES columns, neither which seem to add up to the actual > memory/swap used.
It's just a count of the amount of memory currently in use, not a fixed amount assigned to different uses. Kris
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