From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 06:53:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15740 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 06:53:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@[208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15733 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 06:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-97.camalott.com [208.229.74.97] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA27738; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:53:19 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03369; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:53:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:53:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806231353.IAA03369@detlev.UUCP> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: jer@jorsm.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Doug White on Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:20:58 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Wired memory usage From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>> 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? Yes, that's it! I must have overlooked it when I examined vmstat. Thank you! > Wired memory is usually used (exclusively) by device drivers. That is true, the lion's share is. I will soon need to look use it to detect leaks, though. Thanks, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message