Re: what does this look like? (fwd)

Pedro Melo (melo@co.telenet.pt)
Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:27:14 GMT

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:09:12 -0700 (PDT), MegaZone
<megazone@livingston.com> wrote:

>Once upon a time Rick Osteen shaped the electrons to say...
>>LIV-IDT> sho mem
>>System memory 16777216 bytes - 4469700 used, 12307516 available
>
>You've got 16MB, a little over 4MB used.
>
>>176:1 112:2 2832:2 2048:3 1152:1 64:1 160:18 640:2 80:15 96:1 128:0 272:7 144:22
>> 16:128 208:1 32:21
>
>These are 'shelves' reserved for different sized buffers to make thins
>faster. I don't even want to try explaining, I get confused myself...
>
>>System nbufs 1400 - 53 used, 1347 available
>
>These are your network buffers.

I've seen posts in this list showing this info (sh mem) and saying "See,
look, there! A memory leak in ComOS!" ;)

How can you tell from that info?

Melo

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