topic Re: Shared Memory Allocation in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

Shared Memory Allocation

abhay kumar_2 — Wed, 19 May 2004 13:50:39 GMT

We have 8 Gb main memory. Out of which 5 Gb is allocated to shared memory.

I want to know how much of the 3 Gb allocated to OS is actually being used.

If I use VMSTAT -P, it also includes the shared memory.

Re: Shared Memory Allocation

Ralf Puchner — Wed, 19 May 2004 15:03:41 GMT

ipcs -am or ipcs -b

Re: Shared Memory Allocation

abhay kumar_2 — Wed, 19 May 2004 15:10:45 GMT

I am interested in knowing only about the "non-shared memory" allocation. Specifically,

>> how much of the memory allocated to OS is being used ?