From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 01:21:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19059 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:21:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA19051 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:21:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA22785; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:20:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:20:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: jer@jorsm.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wired memory usage In-Reply-To: <199806222236.RAA00598@detlev.UUCP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > >> Is there a command to tell me what wired memory is being used for? > > `man systat` may provide what you're looking for. > > That's not really it. I was looking for a breakdown of wired > (non-pagable) memory. systat will tell me how much memory has been > wired, but not what it's being used for. `vmstat -m' perhaps? Wired memory is usually used (exclusively) by device drivers. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message