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Date:      Fri, 08 Oct 1999 12:10:25 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Questions regarding memory usage 
Message-ID:  <199910081910.MAA01047@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Oct 1999 14:57:41 EDT." <Pine.GSO.3.96.991008145353.22257B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> 

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> 
> Does FreeBSD have the following features:
> 
> (1) Limit the physical memory it uses even if the machine has larger
> memory without having to pull out the memory chip physically.  This should
> be done at the boot time. 

In -current and (I think) -stable, you can set the 'hw.physmem' tunable 
in the loader.  See 'help set tunables' in the loader, or read 
/boot/loader.help.

> (2) Tell if a particular program has ever been swapped out.

There is no trivial way to determine this, no.
-- 
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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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