Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: vm_stat Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 91 07:24:32 GMT Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: comp Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In vm_stat, what is the inactive entry suppose to tell me? How many pages should be inactive. Below is output from my vm_stat. Should so many pages be inactive? Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes, cache hits 89%) free active inac wire faults copy zerofill reactive pageins pageout 52 332 301 237 7 0 5 0 2 0 Also, how many people have made the move from 16MB of RAM to 20MB or 24MB? Is there a noticable difference? -Mike