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- From: peterj@uwa.oz.au (Peter E. Jones)
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- Subject: Re: Swap space usage..??
- Message-ID: <peterj.714285199@s11>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 04:33:19 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.204756.12770@mdd.comm.mot.com> <l9316tINN7g@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- limes@ouroborous.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg Limes) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug13.204756.12770@mdd.comm.mot.com> pchan@mdd.comm.mot.com (Pat Chan) writes:
- >| When I do "pstat -T", I get the swap space size, say X.
- >| When I do "/etc/dmesg", I find the swap space is only half of X.
- >| The other half is for dump space.
- .... lots of other stuff ...
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- Is this not just that disk sizes are in terms of blocks which are
- only 512 bytes, i.e. 1/2 a Kbyte? You get the same thing happening
- when you buy a 660Mbyte disc - they mean M==million and not mega
- as is usually the case for RAM say. Makes a little difference
- and also gives rise to just this type of query.
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