Re: memory usage a la "free"

[Ben Cottrell <benco@stockmaster.com>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:18:04 +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
> Anyway now that I've got a couple different sources of seeing the same
> numbers here, I wonder if OBSD is seeing all of my RAM.  I have 32 MB in
> there, but:
> 
> [...]
> 
> and from systat vmstat:
>           memory totals (in KB)
>          real   virtual    free
> Active   7280      7284   11396
> All     15828     15832  113704

Hm. This certainly seems odd -- and my first guess would be that yes,
you're not seeing all the memory that's in the machine. But before you
despair, look at the output from "dmesg", near the top, where it gives
memory statistics in bytes. That's pretty much the be-all-end-all measure
of how much physical RAM is actually being seen by the system.

	~Ben