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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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