jdubb@bucsf.bu.edu (jay dubb) (04/22/91)
I am posting this for a friend of mine who doesn't have access to USENET, so please respond directly to mlevin@jade.tufts.edu. I recently posted a question about my Vaxstation II/RC with Ultrix 4.1 - it seemed to be losing memory. Someone pointed out that it must mean that the swap space is getting fragmented. Well, I did "pstat -s", and it told me (I have 8 Megs of RAM in my machine, and an RD54 hard disk, which is about 95% full): 25078k swap configured 11264k reserved virtual address space 8451k used (3264k used, 0k smem) 16627k free, 426k wasted, 0k missing eval: 518+ 32k 51+1k I have no idea what all of this means, but 426k wasted doesn't seem good. Is all of this normal? If not, can it account for messages such as "out of memory - saving everything" from things like DecWrite when I have lots of processes running? If so, how do I fix it? The machine has been rebooted today, btw. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Mike Levin (mlevin@jade.tufts.edu)