| Scott Marlowe 2006-03-21, 3:34 am |
| On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 08:45, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:00:34PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
> No, this is perfectly fine. Inactive memory in FreeBSD isn't the same as
> Free. It's the same as 'active' memory except that it's pages that
> haven't been accessed in X amount of time (between 100 and 200 ms, I
> think). When free memory starts getting low, FBSD will start moving
> pages from the inactive queue to the free queue (possibly resulting in
> writes to disk along the way).
>
> IIRC, Cache is the directory cache, and Buf is disk buffers, which is
> somewhat akin to shared_buffers in PostgreSQL.
So, then, the inact is pretty much the same as kernel buffers in linux?
---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate
subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql
.org so that your
message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
|