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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!mcshub!martin From: martin@innovus.com (Martin Renters) Subject: question about number of VM pages in system Message-ID: <1993Mar2.202211.5545@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: foxtrot.innovus.com Organization: Innovus Inc., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 20:22:11 GMT Lines: 15 Is the number of VM pages supposed to remain constant during a run of the operating system? In other words, if I start out with 739 pages when the system boots (inital value for vm_page_free_count), am I always supposed to be guaranteed that the value: vm_page_free_count + vm_page_active_count + vm_page_inactive_count + vm_page_wire_count remains constant? (and equal to the number of initial pages?) I'm trying to figure out where the VM memory leak is that causes pages to get lost. Martin Renters martin@innovus.com Innovus Inc.