From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 15:03:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12343 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 15:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12206 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 15:02:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA019620896306419; Thu, 28 May 1998 10:00:19 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id KAA01788; Thu, 28 May 1998 10:00:18 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00610; Thu, 28 May 1998 09:55:11 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA04899; Thu, 28 May 1998 09:55:18 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:55:17 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I find out how much memory the kernel is using now? In-Reply-To: <29194.896243382@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 May 1998, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [snip] > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Clothes do make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message