Le Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:43:48 -0700 (MST)
J. Blank - NetBSD Mailing Lists a écrit :
[...]
>              total       used       free    buffers
> Mem:         13544      12532       1012          0
               ^^^^^
First of all, this is the memory available after the kernel was loaded.
The code of GENERIC is about 6MB IIRC.

[...}
> What in heck are these things, and why are they eating all of my RAM!? 
> About all that I can guess at are pcic0,0,[01] (i.e. my PCMCIA drivers, 
> no?) and pagedaemon (some sort of swapspace handler)? And reaper, I 
> suppose, kills old tasks?

These are kernel threads, and the space used is the space used by the
kernel (including code).

> Why are these things eating so incredibly MUCH RAM?

6 megs of code and 6 megs of data are not that much for a (presumably) non
optimized kernel.

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