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SHOW MEMORY Display Details?

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The Question is:

 
Hi
 
I have noticed that the output for SHOW MEM/PHYS differs between DCL and SDA.
 Sample output follows:
 
SDA> SHOW MEM/PHYS
System Memory Resources from Running System on 12-SEP-2003 11:22:49.22
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Physical Memory Usage (Pages):     Total        Free      In Use    Modified
  Main Memory (16.00GB)          2097152      722129     1345420       29603
 
Of the physical pages in use, 851099 pages are permanently allocated to OpenVMS.
SDA>  Exit
[WEPENEC_xxxx01] $ sh mem/phys
              System Memory Resources on 12-SEP-2003 11:22:56.40
 
Physical Memory Usage (pages):     Total        Free      In Use    Modified
  Main Memory (16.00GB)          2097152      722355     1345197       29600
 
Of the physical pages in use, 63899 pages are permanently allocated to OpenVMS.
 
The part that I am concerned about is the "xxx pages are permanently allocated
 to OpenVMS". Is this expected behaviour? Which utility gives the right
 information?
 
Thanks
Christo

The Answer is :

 
  SHOW MEMORY/PHYSICAL include reserved memory in V7.3-1, though this
  particular behaviour is likely worthy of a formal problem report.
  (Also see SHOW MEMORY/PHYSICAL/RESERVED.)
 
 

  
     
     answer written or last revised on ( 24-NOV-2003 )
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