Re: Understanding top and memory usage

2006-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Philip Radford wrote: [ ... ] When using the top command I get the following in regards to memory usage. Mem: 223M Active, 970M Inact, 175M Wired, 50M Cache, 112M Buf, 73M Free Swap: 3029M Total, 12K Used, 3029M Free Can someone advise me which figure relates to actual physical memory which is

Understanding top and memory usage

2006-08-02 Thread Philip Radford
Hi All, This is a question which probably applies to all unix based OS as well as FreeBSD. When using the top command I get the following in regards to memory usage. Mem: 223M Active, 970M Inact, 175M Wired, 50M Cache, 112M Buf, 73M Free Swap: 3029M Total, 12K Used, 3029M Free Can someone ad