Subject: Re: pstat incorrect in system w/48Mb RAM (i386)
To: None <morales@cs.umd.edu, netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/27/1996 19:26:00
>From: Jan Morales <morales@cs.umd.edu>
>
>I just upgraded my PC from 16Mb of RAM to 48Mb.  Now "pstat -s" always
>reports the following:
>
>    Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
>    /dev/sd0b       98752        4    98748     0%    Interleaved
>
>even when I am doing things that used to bring swap usage into the
>20Mb neighborhood before the upgrade.  Apart from that, the system
>seems to be running great, including a noticeable effect from the new
>memory.  Is this a problem with pstat or the kernel or something else?

It most likely means that since you've added 32MB of physical memory,
your process load is no longer pushing you into needing any swap.  Swap
space is only used when the combined memory space requirements of all
processes exceed the size of physical memory.  If you were only using
20MB of swap before the upgrade, you should still have 12MB of RAM left
before you start swapping again post-upgrade.  I should have such
problems!  :-)

Max