'top' has never shown real memory statistics for me on NetBSD.
At one point, I looked into switching it to use sysctl
hw.physmem/usermem, but got kind of lost in the code.  (I'm not much
of a c guy)

It's good to hear that it worked, though.

On 10/27/05, Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Last week I was at the AUUG 2005 conference where they had a Sun Fire V40=
Z
> which was part of the display that Sun put on for the conference.  On
> the last day we were allowed to install other operating systems onto
> the beast - the OpenBSD guys put theirs on (it worked FWIW), and I
> then installed NetBSD onto the machine, cross built a MP on my laptop
> and booted to that.  With the short testing I did NetBSD performed
> flawlessly on the machine.
>
> The machine specs were quad dual core opterons (8 cpus in other
> words), 16Gb of RAM, two U320 SCSI hard drives.
>
> About the only problem I noticed was that top was not entirely happy
> with displaying the memory size correctly - the amount of free memory
> reported by top was off by a long way (an order of magnitude or so).
> I think the problem is confined to top because vmstat seemed to report
> the correct numbers...
>