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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!204.127.130.5!worldnet.att.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!gail.ripco.com!dr From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Where does all my RAM go? Date: 3 Feb 1997 06:34:22 GMT Organization: Ripco Communications Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5d40te$3l3$1@gail.ripco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rci.ripco.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34927 I have a P133 running 2.1.6 with 48MB installed. All the RAM is available after booting, but a couple hours later, it seems to shrink. 'top' reports the following memory utilization: Mem: 22M Active, 1056K Inact, 5756K Wired, 15M Cache, 5218K Buf, 948K Free Swap: 109M Total, 64K Used, 109M Free Aside from the numbers not adding up, can anybody explain the meaning of the categories, especially 'Wired' and 'Cache' ? Thanks, Dave -- David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased dr@ripco.com (773) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail!