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Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by Flow on Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:50AM (#8613833)
You think Linux is alone in acting like that?
Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by andreasvc on Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:56AM (#8613844)
No, but maybe others don't report such memory as used, which seems unfortunate to me.
Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by Flow on Sunday November 16, 2014 @05:16AM (#8613867)
FreeBSD has many labels for how it uses memory. Active, Inactive, Cache etc, to specify the purpose. See this question and answer: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134862/what-do-the-d...
Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by Freaky on Sunday November 16, 2014 @10:33AM (#8614404)
They're less labels for purpose and more labels for lifecycle - data you'd consider "cached" can appear just about anywhere. From what I remember (corrections more than welcome):

Active is fully-fledged in use memory, mapped into one or more processes

Inactive is where Active goes when it's less in-use. Cheap to reactivate, but relatively costly to free: can still be mapped into processes, and may be dirty (modified) and thus require writing to disk before being unmapped and cleared for reuse.

Cached is where lesser used Inactive cached data goes before it dies. More costly to reactivate, but cheap to free: No longer mapped directly into any process, and strictly consists of only clean (unmodified) pages that don't need writing back to disk before clearing.

Wired is pinned-down memory that can't be swapped out. ZFS's data and metadata caches are counted here, since it maintains its own (known as the ARC - Adaptive Replacement Cache, after the algorithm it's based on) instead of just relying on the traditional VM page cache.

Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by Sami_Lehtinen on Sunday November 16, 2014 @08:12AM (#8614130)
At least Windows Servers do. Administrators are often confused about why all memory is being used, when it's used by disk cache. (memory mapped files)
Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by metaobject on Sunday November 16, 2014 @08:50AM (#8614189)
You can use 'free -m' to view the actual amount of memory being used.
Re:The Move from Linux to FreeBSD by dorfsmay on Sunday November 16, 2014 @10:39AM (#8614428)
Or:

    free -h
h for human, so it converts to KiB, MiB or GiB depending on which one is the most suitable.