Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 10/07/2010 03:34 PM, RW wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:13:42 -0500 (CDT) > Scott Bennett wrote: > > > >> The top(1) man page is clearly in error, at least on FreeBSD >> systems. The descriptions of the Active, Inact, Wired, Cache, Buf, >> and Free fields are all wrong inasmuch as the wo

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:42:06 + Michel Talon wrote: > Bruce Cran said: > > > The top(1) man page is clearly in error, at least on FreeBSD > > systems. I did not say that. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread RW
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:13:42 -0500 (CDT) Scott Bennett wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:42:30 +0100 Bruce Cran > wrote: > >You can find more information about the VM architecture at > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/vm.html . > > > The top(1) man page is clearly in er

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Michel Talon
Bruce Cran said: > The top(1) man page is clearly in error, at least on FreeBSD systems. Here is an answer to a similar question given by John Dyson the author of the FreeBSD VM system. http://groups.google.fr/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/7d3d28b807640847/9c081931470ade

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:42:30 +0100 Bruce Cran wrote: >On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:09 +0200 >Bas Smeelen wrote: > >> *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for >> immediate reallocation >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1 >>

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-02 Thread Bas Smeelen
_ From: Bas Smeelen [mailto:b.smee...@ose.nl] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:44:57 +0200 Subject: Re: Cache Memory in top command On 09/30/2010 01:37 PM, RW wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200 > Bas Smeelen wrote: > > >

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-30 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 09/30/2010 01:37 PM, RW wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200 > Bas Smeelen wrote: > > > >> *Wired:* number of pages wired down, including cached file data pages >> > That refers to buffer pages (displayed as Buf), which are a subset of > the cached file data pages. > > The pages

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:24:58 +0200 Bas Smeelen wrote: > *Wired:* number of pages wired down, including cached file data pages That refers to buffer pages (displayed as Buf), which are a subset of the cached file data pages. The pages in the cache queue are not specifically cached file data pag

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-30 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 09/29/2010 07:36 PM, RW wrote: >>> Bas Smeelen wrote: >>> >>> *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for immediate reallocation http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1 >>> > I don't see why it would be include

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-29 Thread RW
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:41:16 +0200 Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 09/29/2010 01:42 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:09 +0200 > > Bas Smeelen wrote: > > > > > >> *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for > >> immediate reallocation > >> http://www.freebsd.

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-29 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 09/29/2010 01:42 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:09 +0200 > Bas Smeelen wrote: > > >> *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for >> immediate reallocation >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1 >>

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:57:09 +0200 Bas Smeelen wrote: > *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for > immediate reallocation > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1 > I believe the "Cache" value is

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-28 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 09/29/2010 08:50 AM, vyaaghrah-...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi Adam > > It gets me to this following explanation > > Cache: number of pages used for VM-level disk caching > > I am not sure what is VM-Level disk caching? > Further it does not answer how this value is calculated for a system. > > >>

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-28 Thread vyaaghrah-nix
More To: vyaaghrah-...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 8:20:43 AM Subject: Re: Cache Memory in top command On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:40 PM, wrote: Hi Everybody > >How is Cache memory in the following output calculated, on Free BSD system. >

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:40 PM, wrote: > Hi Everybody > > How is Cache memory in the following output calculated, on Free BSD system. > man 1 top -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-28 Thread vyaaghrah-nix
Hi Everybody How is Cache memory in the following output calculated, on Free BSD system. last pid: 39307; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 60+18:16:49 10:00:17 25 proc