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 Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:50 am Post subject: Active and inactive cache. |
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Looking at /proc/meminfo of my friend's PC -
| Code: | MemTotal: 892500 kB
MemFree: 76456 kB
Buffers: 28908 kB
Cached: 298804 kB
SwapCached: 236 kB
Active: 316536 kB
Inactive: 385704 kB
Active(anon): 184796 kB
Inactive(anon): 191716 kB
Active(file): 131740 kB
Inactive(file): 193988 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 1052220 kB
SwapFree: 1051464 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 72 kB
AnonPages: 374460 kB
Mapped: 145744 kB
Shmem: 1984 kB
Slab: 30388 kB
SReclaimable: 13584 kB
SUnreclaim: 16804 kB
KernelStack: 2128 kB
PageTables: 26744 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1498468 kB
Committed_AS: 1269456 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 82576 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359652684 kB
AnonHugePages: 92160 kB
DirectMap4k: 119512 kB
DirectMap2M: 796672 kB |
I only understand some of the terms mentioned here, out of which the 'Active' and 'Inactive' are ambiguous to me.
How come the Active + Inactive > Cached ?
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