Very Computer

I am having some trouble calculating total virtual memory on our Solaris 8
servers.  The box has 2048MB of RAM and a 2048MB swap partition.  So, the
total virtual memory should be 4096MB (4GB).  Running the "swap  -s"
produces the following output:

# swap -s
total: 1109000k bytes allocated + 7968k reserved = 1116968k used, 2671016k
available

I expected to find the total amount of VM by simply adding the amount used
with the total available (in k-bytes).  Using the values above, this
calculation is 3787984K (leaving about 308MB short of 4GB).

What am I missing here?  Does Solaris 8 have some sort of "minfree" space
for VM that is not shown?  What is the absolute best way to determine how
much memory is being used (and/or available)?

Thanks,

-Ron

I don't know the best way to find the amount of used kernel pages.

You are seeing the best way to determine how much memory is available to
normal, VM using processes.

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