H_Eidnes%vax.runit.unit.uninett@NTA-VAX.arpa (H}vard Eidnes) (10/29/86)
We have a Sun-3/160M-4, where we feel there is 1.2Mb memory "missing". "egrep avail /usr/adm/messages | head -1" produce approx. 3.4Mb. "ps axv" and summing up the resident sizes gives approx. 0.7Mb. "vmstat 5" then reports only approx. 1.5Mb free memory. What did I misunderstand? Does the kernel "eat" memory after the message "avail" is output? The same fenomenon is observed on a MicroVAX II w. 5Mb physical memory, avail = 4.1Mb, sum resident of ps axv = 0.6Mb, vmstat reports 2.6Mb free, ie. 0.9Mb unaccounted for. ------- E-Mail: <h_eidnes%vax.runit.unit.uninett@nta-vax.arpa> H}vard Eidnes (or TeXish: H\aa vard Eidnes) Division of Computer Science Norwegian Institute of Technology <Generic disclaimer>