FreeBSD's method of displaying ram usage in top

[Chris Pressey]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 15:03:08 -0700
<jesse at clatsopwebdesign.com> wrote:

> [...]
> I've been reading through man top and man 4 mem etc. but I am still
> confused as to what FreeBSD means by inactive memory and why there's
> less memory available on the FreeBSD machine when FreeBSD seems to be
> so much more scalable than Linux.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM

-Chris