I have a quick question regarding the differences between Inactive and
Free memory.
Context: I'm running 4.9 stable as a desktop machine. Right after a
fresh reboot most of the system memory shows up as Free (using top).
Then, after a few hours of work... running X, web browsers, and the
On Apr 8, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Micah Bushouse wrote:
My question is... after I shut down all programs, ctrl alt backspace
X, and get back to a terminal, why does top still show all the memory
just freed by my desktop programs as inactive?
The system still has the contents of your old programs kept
