From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 8 12:18: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D7D14FEF for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 12:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01047; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 12:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910081910.MAA01047@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions regarding memory usage In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Oct 1999 14:57:41 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 12:10:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Does FreeBSD have the following features: > > (1) Limit the physical memory it uses even if the machine has larger > memory without having to pull out the memory chip physically. This should > be done at the boot time. In -current and (I think) -stable, you can set the 'hw.physmem' tunable in the loader. See 'help set tunables' in the loader, or read /boot/loader.help. > (2) Tell if a particular program has ever been swapped out. There is no trivial way to determine this, no. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message