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<blockquote data-quote="Acill" data-source="post: 117441" data-attributes="member: 1828"><p>Inactive memory is allocated memory that hasn't been accessed during last N Secs (quite likely to be first candidates for being swapped/paged out if memory being demanded). [I always think of Inactive memory as the memory used by caches]</p><p></p><p>Or memory that was used once or more that isnt currently being used but could be used again or used as swap at any time. I hope that helps out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Acill, post: 117441, member: 1828"] Inactive memory is allocated memory that hasn't been accessed during last N Secs (quite likely to be first candidates for being swapped/paged out if memory being demanded). [I always think of Inactive memory as the memory used by caches] Or memory that was used once or more that isnt currently being used but could be used again or used as swap at any time. I hope that helps out. [/QUOTE]
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