Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 14:18:31 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How do I find out how much memory the kernel is using now? Message-ID: <15378.896217511@monkeys.com>
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I have a FreeBSD box configured (via sysctl) to allow for a large number of both open files (system-wide) and also for a large number of open network connections (system-wide). This box has very little running on it, only a few processes, the largest of which is about 5.5 megs (virtual), but I have 32 MB of physical memory in the box. Still, the thing seems to be swapping like crazy. Why? I need to find out exactly why, and soon. Please help. I need to know if there is any command that I can use to find out exactly how much main memory the kernel itself is using up at the present moment. The only thing that I can find that even seems remotely like it might do the job is `sysctl -a', which shows me: hw.physmem: 32010240 hw.usermem: 3829760 Now for the big question... What exactly is the significance of that second number?? Is that really saying that I only have 3.8 MB left for user-level processes?? -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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