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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:20:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
Cc:        jer@jorsm.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Wired memory usage
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623012026.15375J-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199806222236.RAA00598@detlev.UUCP>

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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


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