On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:14:58AM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > Humm, ahh, sorry the previous mail should have stated that vmstat has the > wrong memory size. It fails to include the memory used by the kernel. The > swap size has always been correct, AFAIK.
Memory used by the kernel is not available to the applications. vmstat provides information about the virtual memory, and the physical ram available to the VM is the physiacal ram minus the ram used by the kernel. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/
