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From: Stefan Parvu <sparvu@systemdatarecorder.org>
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Subject: Re: memory utilization questions
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> * Another OID: vfs.bufspace; I integer-divide this by 1024 (to get
>   results in KB), as it seems to be in bytes vs. pages.

Any ideas what is this parameter monitoring ? I found references about 
KVA memory used for bufs structures. Why should we even keep a track of it ?


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