Cache Memory in top command

[Bas Smeelen]

On 10/07/2010 03:34 PM, RW wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:13:42 -0500 (CDT)
> Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu> 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 word "pages" in each
>> should instead be "bytes". For example, top on my system at present
>> shows:
>>
>> Mem: 1099M Active, 401M Inact, 262M Wired, 88M Cache, 112M Buf, 143M
>> Free
>>
>> Consider the value given for "Wired" (i.e., page-fixed pages, which
>> cannot exceed the number of page frames on the machine, of course.)
>> Now, either "M" has some extraordinary definition, or it means
>> "mega", though presumably in the classical computing sense of the
>> power of 2 that is closest to one million. 
>>     
> It does actually say, just above, that M and K are megabytes and
> kilobytes. It is wrong though, in that it has "number of pages" when
> it should have "memory from pages" or just "pages" 
>   
Thank you both
I have submitted a pr with patch for the man page



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