Overview Mem Info                             see System Quirks

 

 

The Overview Mem Info screen presents the status of various aspects of virtual memory.

 

Each process running in a CPU consumes both physical and virtual memory.  Virtual memory is the underlying disk space made available via NSKCOM to each CPU.  Typically, a CPU has allocated twice the amount of virtual memory than physical memory.

 

Physical memory is the memory actually present in the CPU.  For example, you have a 2 Gigabyte processor.

 

Not all memory is available for virtual use.  When memory is locked, it is not allowed to swap to disk.  A certain amount of memory is always locked by the operating system at startup.  This amount varies as processes start and stop.

 

Misc. Memory is a 'catch area' for other useful memory counters.