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To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br>
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Subject: Re: Wired Memory - Who's using it ? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 17:36:17 -0800
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>Hello,
>
>  Is there a way to see who or what is using the wired memory ?
>
>67 processes:  4 running, 59 sleeping, 4 stopped
>Cpu states:  2.3% user,  0.0% nice,  8.3% system,  2.3% interrupt, 87.0% idle
>Mem: 26M Active, 3844K Inact, 11M Wired, 19M Cache, 5275K Buf, 3032K Free
>Swap: 262M Total, 13M Used, 249M Free, 5% Inuse

   "Wired" can refer to either filesystem buffers with wired pages or it can
refer to kernel malloced memory. You can see a breakdown of the latter with
"vmstat -m".

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project