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Subject: Re: [9fans] how much memory?
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The kernel is being piggy.  If you have > 16 Meg, 40 meg gets reserved by
the kernel , mostly so it can use it for bitmaps.  You can reduce that
by putting the following in plan9.ini:

*kernelpercent=xx

where xx is the percentage you want to reserve for the kernel.

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From: "kazumi iwane" <kiwane@dream.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:40:05 +0900

Hello 9fans,

My pc has got 128 Mbytes of RAM, but /dev/swap says

  1539/19428 memory 0/19351 swap

which means, I think, about 75 Mbytes of total memory
because a page is 4096 bytes.

Where does the rest go, grabbed by the kernel?

Thanks.

- kazumi


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