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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Kernel Memory question
- Message-ID: <1891@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 16:36:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.202317.15659@nntpserver.chevron.com> <1gem5bINN9e2@wintermute.phys.psu.edu>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <1gem5bINN9e2@wintermute.phys.psu.edu>, kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec13.044317.26568@decuac.dec.com> murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com writes:
- > >I know of no "wasted memory inherent in ULTRIX". Sounds like nonsense to me..
- >
- > 55792k free, 2304k wasted, 0k missing
- > avail: 1737*32k 208*1k ^^^^^^
- >
- > 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?
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- Read the manual for "pstat -s": the above has nothing to do with RAM
- memory.
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- We get output such as the above when someone has made a mistake of some
- sort in configuring swap space.
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- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
-