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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Top vs vmstat
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:32:07 GMT

I've noted that top and vmstat often disagree about how much
free memory the system has, with top often showing a lot less
than vmstat.  "vmstat -systat" seems to produce the most 
believable numbers.  Is top broken (got the port from freefall)
or is this "normal?"  :-)

Chris
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