HP-UX top command specifics

[Tata Consultants]

Hi,

Partial output of TOP
System Page Size: 4Kbytes
Memory: 1831796K (853596K) real, 2985852K (1874188K) virtual, 10458236K free Page# 1/6

And here the memory from syslog

/var/adm/syslog #cat syslog.log |grep -i phy
vmunix: Class Physmem Lockmem Swapmem
vmunix: physical page size = 4096 bytes, logical page size = 4096 bytes
vmunix: Physical: 16777216 Kbytes, lockable: 12368624 Kbytes, available: 14127676 Kbytes

Can anyone help me understand the difference between the two.

Regards,
Ashutosh Singh

[Dennis Handly]

>Can anyone help me understand the difference between the two?

What are you really trying to figure out? Have you read the top(1) man page?
Have you looked at "swapinfo -tam"?

[Tata Consultants]

Hi,

I have checked the man page of TOP but it doesn't clarifies what does the memory part in its output shows. It says

Memory Data
Reports virtual and real memory used by user processes (with
the amount of memory considered "active" in parentheses) and
the amount of free memory.

So, I want to know what is the diff b/w real, virtual and free and the significance of the memory shown in brackets.

Regards,
Ashutosh Singh

[Ismail Azad]

The latter output is the allocated page size and the allocated RAM . Physical is the RAM on the system. Kernel and data structures require some amount of space. The rest is available. Lockable memory is the pages that cannot be paged out to swap space. This is the allocated part.

Top displays an output which tells us the memory used as of "now". It is a REAL TIME monitoring tool and swapinfo tells us how much is allocated. This is the most significant difference.

[Tata Consultants]

Thanks to all for the help.