On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:14:35 -0400
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've never been 100% clear on the exact differences, but it basically
> has to do with where the data in RAM came from. Depending on whether
> it was a VM page, or a disk page will determine what bucket it goes
> into when
On Friday 03 October 2008, RW wrote:
> The terms are a bit misleading, because the don't all relate to the use
> of the memory from the user's perspective, but how it's seen within
> FreeBSD's integrated cache/VM system.
Thanks to you and everyone else who wrote. I guess I'll go back to using it
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:58:54 -0500
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg:
>
> usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB)
> avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB)
>
> However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could
> be u
active and the program need not be reloaded from disk.
I think non-program code can also be "inactive".
i am sure.
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> inactive, cache, and buffer are all different types of "buffer".
That is my understanding as well.
> I'm fairly sure that inactive is memory used by program code. When the
> program terminates, the memory is marked as inactive, which means the
> next time the program starts the code can simply
In response to Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thursday 02 October 2008, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
> > I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg:
> >
> > usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB)
> > avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB)
> >
> > However, most of it is just sitting
Mem: 482M Active, 1044M Inact, 363M Wired, 3792K Cache, 214M Buf, 4023M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
I can understand that on the other machine maybe inactive memory is more
beneficial than cache or buffers, but this system is just sitting there
with 4GB free (and the exact same amount of b
usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB)
avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB)
However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could be
used for buffers or cache:
Mem: 1186M Active, 3902M Inact, 468M Wired, 233M Cache, 214M Buf, 138M Free
Swap: 8192M Total, 900K Used, 8191M Fre
On Thursday 02 October 2008, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> I have an AMD system with 6GB of RAM. From dmesg:
>
> usable memory = 6428237824 (6130 MB)
> avail memory = 6203797504 (5916 MB)
>
> However, most of it is just sitting there when it looks like it could be
> used for buffers or cache:
