From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 10:58:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01395106566C for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:58:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ftp51246-2575596@sh4-5.1blu.de) Received: from sh4-5.1blu.de (sh4-5.1blu.de [213.83.63.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18188FC19 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ftp51246-2575596 by sh4-5.1blu.de with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Q7mvL-0007vG-08 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:58:51 +0200 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:58:50 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110407105849.GA29009@sh4-5.1blu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: 8-CURRENT: where is my memory? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:58:58 -0000 Hello, I'm running 8-CURRENT in a VM with 3000 MByte RAM: $ dmesg | fgrep memory real memory = 3145728000 (3000 MB) avail memory = 3062030336 (2920 MB) VMware memory control driver initialized but top(1) shows only: Mem: 429M Active, 245M Inact, 190M Wired, 83M Cache, 112M Buf, 197M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free i.e. the shown memory (incl. Free) sums up to 1200 MByte, where is the rest? What I wanted to know is, to which value I could lower the mem of the VM without swapping will start. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/