From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 6 00:50:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA07509 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 00:50:27 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA07503 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 00:50:25 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id AAA01371; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 00:53:45 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA00188; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 00:50:37 -0700 Message-Id: <199506060750.AAA00188@corbin.Root.COM> To: Temptation cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree/Memory again In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 95 16:55:01 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 00:50:35 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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