On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:28:06PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > 	version of gcc used in NetBSD uses a lot more memory than earlier
> > 	versions, plus compile flags default to -O2 which causes it to
> > 	use even more memory when optimising.
> > 
> > 	Are you using a GENERIC or cutomised kernel?
> customized.
> 
> next test i've done with 15M available 
> 
> NetBSD 1.5 (local) #3: Fri Feb 16 11:37:11 CET 2001
>     wojtek@wojtek.from.pl:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/local
> cpu0: Intel Pentium/MMX (586-class)
> total memory = 14976 KB
> avail memory = 12332 KB
> 
> 
> and i could not understand it:
> 
> 67 processes:  66 sleeping, 1 on processor
> 
> Memory: 4212K Act, 2288K Inact, 184K Wired, 948K Free, 27M Swap, 501M Swap free
> 
> 
> used and free memory does not sum up to 12332!!!!

Some parts of 12332 are used for buffer cache. This should be printed
just next to the "avail memory" line.
Still there seems to be some space lost ...

--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
--