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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Using only part of physical memory
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Is there any easy way to tell SunOS to only use a fraction of the
available physical memory?  I have a 3/50 (running 3.5.2) on my desk with
an expansion memory card (total of 8) but it's not easy for me to evaluate
how much good it really does.  I have page and swap perfmeters up all the
time but it's hard to make comparisons.  I want to be able to reboot my
machine every morning and tell it to use 4, 6, 8, whatever meg on a given
day so I can get a feel for how the machine works with N meg installed
without having to physically take the memory out and put it back in each
time.

Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy
"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"