Newbies Question: High inactive memory and Quota in kernel

[meimi]

I think if the inactive memory is large, then free memory will be small. When some programs need a lot of memory, they may not have enough and use the swap space. Thus, decrease overall performance.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lowell Gilbert 
  To: meimi 
  Cc: freebsd-questions 
  Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:22 AM
  Subject: Re: Newbies Question: High inactive memory and Quota in kernel


        "meimi" <meimi_1 at hotmail.com> writes:
         
        > 1.Why the inactive memory be so high? Is it a rpoblem?
         
        Why *would* it be a problem? At least it's holding data that *might*
        be useful.