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From: [e-mail] (Antonio A. Lagana)
Subject: Where did 10MB of my Memory Go?
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:32:18 GMT
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Hi,

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I just did 'pstat -m' and got
the following (puzzling) result:

2000 buffers: 0 busy, 0 wanted, 622 done, 1371 nodev
156 out of 256 UFS inodes active
19 out of 100 processes active
75 out of 256 files active

Total memory = 20472K, currently free = 7804K


The puzzling thing about the above result is that this is following the start
of a 32-bit Mac session.  The only active processes are the Mac OS, Finder,
and Command Shell (besides all the unix background processes and daemons).
"About This Macintosh" reports that the largest unused block is approximately
17MB.  Does anyone know what might be the cause of the discrepancy?  If it
makes any difference this is on a standalone Quadra 700 with the following INITs/CDEVs:
Disinfectant INIT, Gatekeeper/Aid, FM Backup, AfterDark, PopChar, SuperClock, Norton
File Saver, JustClick, and Extension Manager.


Thanks in advance,

Antonio A. Lagana                               [e-mail]
Motorola Inc.                                   [phone]

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