On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:35:02AM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 29 July 2009 09:24:31 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I just installed new 4GB RAM in ia64 rx2600 box. > > On make -j8 buildworld I see with "top -PISu": > > > > > > last pid: 69791; load averages: 8.42, 8.44, 8.59 up 0+02:04:49 > > 18:18:17 154 processes: 11 running, 125 sleeping, 18 waiting > > CPU 0: 88.8% user, 0.0% nice, 11.0% system, 0.1% interrupt, 0.0% idle > > CPU 1: 92.5% user, 0.0% nice, 7.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle > > Mem: 856M Active, 2414M Inact, 492M Wired, 136M Cache, 417M Buf, 17M Free > > Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free > > Good, 2G of filesystem information cached and no swap used. Think of free > memory as wasted memory. ok, so I completely misunderstood free and inactive. Where can I read more on this (active, inactive, wired, cashe, buf, free)? The top man page doesn't explain these memory states. many thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423Received on Wed Jul 29 2009 - 15:53:07 UTC
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