Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:55:17 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I find out how much memory the kernel is using now? Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980528095354.4565C-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <29194.896243382@monkeys.com>
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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
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> I spent good money to put 32 MB of main memory in this puppy and now when
> I say that it look like the OS is using up all but 3.8 MB of that you say
> ``That isn't bad''.
>
> It sure as hell _is_ bad in my book. Jeeezzzz. Even Windoze NT doesn't
> suck memory THIS bad!
FreeBSD will use as much memory as you've got mainly for buffers. It
will release as required.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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