Missing 1.2Meg memory?

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1 total messages Started by H}vard Eidnes Wed, 29 Oct 1986 14:53

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Author: H}vard Eidnes
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1986 14:53

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We have a Sun-3/160M-4, where we feel there is 1.2Mb memory
"missing". 

"egrep avail /usr/adm/messages | head -1" produce approx. 3.4Mb.
"ps axv" and summing up the resident sizes gives approx. 0.7Mb.
"vmstat 5" then reports only approx. 1.5Mb free memory. What did
I misunderstand? Does the kernel "eat" memory after the message
"avail" is output? 

The same fenomenon is observed on a MicroVAX II w. 5Mb physical
memory, avail = 4.1Mb, sum resident of ps axv = 0.6Mb, vmstat
reports 2.6Mb free, ie. 0.9Mb unaccounted for.
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Division of Computer Science
Norwegian Institute of Technology

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