rdiaz@presto.ig.com (Ron Diaz) (04/18/89)
I would like to know if anyone has written any tools to monitor physical memory usage on a Sun 3/280 running Sun OS 4.01. I would like to find a way to monitor the OS and verify the actual physical memory in use. The standard tool, 'vmstat' provides a real memory "free list" size but what does this value reflect in relation to physical memory? Is this memory available for OS use only (paging etc.) or is this memory up for grabs as user memory space? I'm trying to find a way to monitor memory usage to size the kernel accordingly. Oh yes, I've talked with Sun software support but they didn't provide any insights on this matter. Please send me replies directly and I'll post the summary. Thanks in advance, Ron Diaz ( rdiaz@presto.ig.com ) IntelliGenetics 700 East El. Camino Real Mountain View Ca. 94040