Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:53:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: jer@jorsm.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wired memory usage Message-ID: <199806231353.IAA03369@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623012026.15375J-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> (message from Doug White on Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:20:58 -0700 (PDT)) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623012026.15375J-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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>>>> 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
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