Re: physical memory vs. real memory

From: Florian Anwander (spam.interessiert.nicht_at_mnet-online.de)
Date: 07/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:47:08 +0200

Hi

The "memory management whitepaper". should give you some information
Once it was in /usr/share/doc/mem_mgt.txt; don't know whether this
exists in actual versions (And I do not pretend, that I understood it
completely ;-) ).

As far as I remember real memory is basically the memory, a user process
can use for code or data.

Florian

jochen_r@gmx.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in sam (or as well in top) I can see two different parameters, one is
> called physical memory and the other one is real memory. So far I used
> these terms equally. I still assume that physical memory denotes to the
> hardware mem chips I put in the server, but was is real memory?
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Jochen
>

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