[1076] in NetBSD-Development
Re: machtype
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Oct 22 01:28:14 1995
To: shabby@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Oct 1995 02:41:32 EDT."
<199510200641.CAA09087@ringworld.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 01:28:40 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> The manpage for machtype lists the -M option as giving "the amount
> of physical memory present, in K." However, actually running
> machtype -M yields two numbers; apparently these are the physical
> memory and the user memory, returned in bytes, not in kilobytes.
Hmm. Currently, Decstations print
25165824
and Suns print something like
29143040 33353728
so the NetBSD behavior is similar to other platforms'. Looks like the
man page should be changed.
