Re: Missing 8 meg RAM?

[Miod Vallat <miod@online.fr>]

> My computer has 40 meg of RAM, but OpenBSD only uses
> 32 meg.  Any ideas?   -- C. Mott

Looking at your dmesg, OpenBSD correctly detects 40 Mb:
> real mem  = 41529344 (40556K)

However, there are only circa 32Mb available to applications:
> avail mem = 33427456 (32644K)

Because the other 8Mb are used by:
- the kernel code
- the buffer cache, as told by:
> using 532 buffers containing 2179072 bytes (2128K) of memory
- and various kernel data structures.
Also, 2.8 on i386 uses softupdates by default, and they account for a
non-negligible amount of memory.
The sum of this all takes the 8 Mb which you consider missing.

Miod