Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 00:50:35 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Temptation <temp@temptation.interlog.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree/Memory again Message-ID: <199506060750.AAA00188@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 95 16:55:01 EDT." <Pine.3.89.9506051656.A21619-0100000@temptation.interlog.com>
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>I've also found something else interesting. running the vmstat -s, before >startX , and then running it after I closed it and all programs, and >making sure nothing was running that wasn't suppose to. I lose 4.1megs >of Memory. (thats if I'm reading vmstat correctly, someone told me >VMcache + free = free memory, so I'm looking at those two numbers) >4megs is really no big deal when you have 256, but I plan on putting that >back in my NT machine, and keeping 32 in the FreeBSD machine. Am I drugs >or am I really losing access to this memory? How are you adding your memory up? Should be: active+inactive+wired+cached+free Wired pages are basically pages that belong to the kernel. -DG
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