On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 12:50:33AM +0300, Alex Stamatis wrote:
> Hallo Misc.
>
> I have (real mem = 167354368 (163432K)) as shown in dmesg ...
>
> The weird part is that in top it shows
> Memory: Real: 56M/78M act/tot
>
> Why does this happen ? Does it really only use 78 mbyte of ram even though
> the system sees the rest of it in dmesg or is it just a bug in the top
> utility ?
> I've never seen this before and it really made me curious. In another
> openbsd that I have this doesnt happen and that fact made me even more
> curious !
Look next to 'Real' - it says 'Free'. Those two should more-or-less add
up to the total amount of memory.
OpenBSD does not necessarily use all memory that it can (unlike, for
instance, Linux, which does fill every bit of memory it can get its
hands on). This is mostly a limitation of OpenBSD.
Joachim
