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- From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Kernel Memory question
- Date: 13 Dec 1992 06:44:59 GMT
- Organization: Penn State, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science
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- Message-ID: <1gem5bINN9e2@wintermute.phys.psu.edu>
- References: <1992Dec12.202317.15659@nntpserver.chevron.com> <1992Dec13.044317.26568@decuac.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Dec13.044317.26568@decuac.dec.com> murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com writes:
- >"physmem" is used to size several kernel tables; you generally want to have
- >it be greater than the memory on the system, but it's not that important.
- >I know of no "wasted memory inherent in ULTRIX". Sounds like nonsense to me..
-
- (leps5)1 ~> pstat -s
- 65528k swap configured
- 16660k reserved virtual address space
- 9736k used (4320k text, 0k smem)
- 55792k free, 2304k wasted, 0k missing
- avail: 1737*32k 208*1k ^^^^^^
-
- (I've seen this up in the 10-15M range).
-
- Quite annoying. Does this go down over time? Or does one have to reboot to
- get rid of it? Or perhaps a kernel parameter would help reduce the waste?
-
- --Ken
-