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HP-UX 11i Internals
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HP-UX 11i Internals

by Chris Cooper, Chris Moore
January 2004
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
11h 1m
English
Pearson
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Monitoring Free Memory

Maintaining an ample supply of free pages for the system is a key duty of the kernel; to this end, the kernel symbol freemem contains the total number of page frames currently on a free list. When memory pressure is high, there are relatively few free pages on the free lists, and the kernel must take corrective action. Figure 7-1 gives us an overall view of the free-page monitoring system.

Figure 7-1. Lotsfree

The total amount of memory available to the operating system is determined at boot and stored in the kernel parameter phys_mem_pages. Additional setpoints are calculated and continuously monitored by the kernel.

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