Re: [j-nsp] Why doesn't memory utilization in "show chassis routing-engine" count in "Inactive" and "Buffers" memory?

2015-10-27 Thread Krasimir Avramski
Hi, It used to be calculated like (Total - Free - Inactive - Cached)/Total, but changed somewhere in 7.x. >From the book: "Dirty pages need to be paged out, but flushing a page is extremely expensive compared to freeing a clean page. Thus, dirty pages are given extra time on the inactive queue by

[j-nsp] Why doesn't memory utilization in "show chassis routing-engine" count in "Inactive" and "Buffers" memory?

2015-10-09 Thread Martin T
Hi, according to "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System"(https://books.google.ee/books?id=KfCuBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA290&lpg=PA290) kernel divides used memory into five lists: Active, Inactive, Wired, Cache and Free. In addition, some memory is used for disk caching. Utilization of