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Hello,

On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:16, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Running top, is it possible for the numbers on the memory line to 
> exceed the available physical memory?
> I'm talking about active, inactive, wired, exec, file and free.
> Of these, if I just sum active, inactive, file and free on one of my 
> machines, it definitely exceeds the available memory I have, which 
> surprised me. Actually, just summing active and file results in more 
> memory than I physically have.

As far as I know the statistics are based on samples taken at more or 
less regular intervals which may or may not be consistent with 
anything.

have fun
Michael
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