On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Peter Seebach wrote:

> Is there a good way to figure out where the memory on a system has actually
> gone?  I have a machine with 256MB of core, and it frequently pages heavily
> when swapping from one window to another.  If I count all of the 8 or so
> kernel processes *each* as 23M, I can come up with 300M in use, but if I
> don't count them that way, I can't come even close; I find that the system
> only thinks it's using about 150MB, and yet, it's paging.  vmstat says 196512
> avm, 808 fre.  "vmstat" says the kernel is using 3.5MB.
> 
> Where's the rest?

Can "vmstat -ms" help?

   Jeremy C. Reed
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