Cache Memory in top command

[Bas Smeelen]

On 09/29/2010 08:50 AM, vyaaghrah-nix at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi Adam
>
> It gets me to this following explanation
>
> Cache: number of pages used for VM-level disk caching
>
> I am not sure what is VM-Level disk caching?
> Further it does not answer how this value is calculated for a system.
>
>   
>> How is Cache memory in the following output calculated, on Free BSD system.
>>
>>     
> man 1 top
>
>   

 *Cache:* number of clean pages caching data that are available for  immediate reallocation
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1 <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=top&sektion=1>



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