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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 1996 00:19:17 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        cskim@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr (Kim Chang Seob)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Message-ID:  <199609030719.AAA02130@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Sep 1996 15:56:33 %2B0700." <9609030656.AA16768@cslsun10.sogang.ac.kr> 

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>I major in computer science at SoGang Univ. in Seoul. Korea. 
>my question is that 
>what is ? 
>phys_avail(i + 1) ? 
>nblocks? 
>it is in vm_page_startup() of vm_page.c 

   phys_avail[] is an array of start/end pairs of physical memory that is
present in the system. nblocks is the number of distinct chunks of physical
memory and is ultimately used as a pointer to the last chunk in order to
calculate the page index of the last physical page of memory.
   Why do you ask?

-DG

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



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