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[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:41:44AM +0000, Rob DeMarco wrote:

>     Thanks for the info.  The thing that got my attention was how,
> after enough processes were spawned and (presumably, some of the cache
> could have been used before needing to page) the 10M remained for use for
> the "Buf" only -- or at least it seemed like it according to `top'.
> But maybe I'm misreading that (I seemed to remember reading that
> the "Wired" info always included the "Buf")  But then I am
> definitely way out of my league here.  I can't even make sense out
> of the SIZE / RES columns, neither which seem to add up to the actual
> memory/swap used.

It's just a count of the amount of memory currently in use, not a
fixed amount assigned to different uses.

Kris
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