On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:54:23AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> "James E. Housley" <j...@thehousleys.net> writes:
> 
> > Just for my infomation.  What is the difference between "Inactive" and
> > "Free" memory.  Right now top says I have 157M Inact and 3260K Free.
> 
> Inactive means the page contains valid data belonging to some file,
> but is not mapped into any address space. Free means, the page doesn't
> contain valid data.

Thanks Arun,

This has been bugging us for ages :)  At last it's clear <yippee>

Joe
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