Re: Inactive vs. free Memory

1999-06-15 Thread John S. Dyson
Arun Sharma said: > "James E. Housley" 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 an

Re: Inactive vs. free Memory

1999-06-15 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 08:54:23AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > "James E. Housley" 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 belongin

Re: Inactive vs. free Memory

1999-06-15 Thread Arun Sharma
"James E. Housley" 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