Re: Mem: and Swap: lines in /proc/meminfo

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Inact_dirty:     21516 kB
> Inact_laundry:   65612 kB
> Inact_clean:     19812 kB
> 
> These three are seperate lists in rmap, and are equal to "Inactive:" in
> the -aa vm.

I should add an Inactive: list to -rmap that sums up all
3, to make it a bit easier on programs parsing /proc.

Note that the inactive clean pages count (more or less)
as free pages, too.

> Inact_target:   150080 kB
> 
> This doesn't account any memory, but is only what the VM is trying to size
> the sum of the three lists above.
> 
> Do I have that right?

Yes, you're completely right.

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