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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.0 uses lots of swap space
Date: 6 Jan 1996 19:11:20 GMT
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plm@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
> At the moment pstat -s reports that 15M swap space is in use. I have
> 16MB RAM, of which I estimate at least 14MB to be available. Top
> reports that only 256KB RAM is free, so the total
> amount of virtual memory used is 29MB.
>
> Now when I add all VSZ's from ps -aux:
>
> ps -aux | awk '{s+=$5} END {print s}'
>
> It shows that only 20.8M is used.
>
> Where is the remaining 8MB gone to?
I think it accounts for shared libraries, which are not shown in the
ps display.
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