Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:32:20 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: hw.physmem/hw.realmem question Message-ID: <E1Utzkq-000Jin-Ig@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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Hi,
to run some tests, I reduced the physical memory by setting hw.physmem,
which got me to do some comparisons, and the more I looked around the
more confused I got.
for example, this host has has 32G of physical memory
from dmesg:
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FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #26: Thu Jun 20 16:00:00 IDT 2013
danny@rnd:/home/obj/rnd/r+d/stable/9/sys/HUJI amd64
gcc version 4.2.1 20070831 patched [FreeBSD]
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2643 0 @ 3.30GHz (3300.06-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x206d7 Family = 0x6 Model = 0x2d Stepping
= 7
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x1fbee3ff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,C
X16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,A
VX>
AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB)
avail memory = 32191340544 (30700 MB)
Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL DCSRADON>
and from sysctl:
hw.physmem: 34284916736
hw.usermem: 32964923392
hw.realmem: 36507222016
after setting
hw.physmem=16G
from dmesg:
real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB)
avail memory = 13999382528 (13350 MB)
and sysctl:
hw.physmem: 14957563904
hw.usermem: 10094678016
hw.realmem: 17179869184
from the numbers, I can assume that realmem is the real physical memory,
(or whatever is set in hw.physmem),
if so, where did almost 2G go? (realmem - physmen)
the only info I found so far is:
from loader(8):
hw.physmem Limit the amount of physical memory the system will use.
By default the size is in bytes, but the k, K, m, M, g and
G suffixes are also accepted and indicate kilobytes,
megabytes and gigabytes respectively. An invalid suffix
will result in the variable being ignored by the kernel.
what is physmem and realmem, and what's the relationship - if any - between
them?
cheers,
danny
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