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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD not finding all my REAL memory
Date: 27 Aug 1995 16:58:07 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <41nb3g$au4@presence.lglobal.com>, Colin P. Ryan <drop@lglobal.com> wrote:
>
>a) confirming what FreeBSD sees....top gives
>
>Memory: 7240 K Act 260 Inact 1724 Wired 2576 Free
>
>I have 16 MB real and swap with only inn running on this machine
>shouldn't I have more active. Whats worse is that vmstat shows the odd
>page out.
FreeBSD will swap pages out to disk even if there is free physical
RAM (as I understand it). Do a "dmesg | grep 'real memory'" and see
how much memory the kernel thinks you have:
% dmesg | grep 'real memory'
real memory = 16384000 (4000 pages)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org