On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:02 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> inactive is not 'not used' memory. > this is just pages don't touched in last 10(?) seconds, but all of > this allocated (such as malloc, mmap, sendfile) to application > (userland programs). > Or otherwise phrased: they're candidates to be paged out if something requires that much memory soon. Meanwhile, stuff currently paged out will stay there unless actively needed; why bother pulling it back in if nothing actually needs it right now, especially since it got paged out because nothing had used it recently (i.e. it was marked inactive)? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
