I was trying to co-relate the o/p from "top" to that I get from vmstat -z. I 
don't have any user programs that wires memory. Given that, I'm assuming the 
wired memory count shown by "top" is memory used by kernel. Now I would like 
find out how the kernel is using this "wired" memory. So, I look at dynamic 
memory allocated by kernel using "vmstat -z". I think memory allocated via 
malloc() is serviced by zones if the allocation size is <4k. So, I'm not sure 
how useful "vmstat -m" is. I also add up memory used by buffer cache. Is there 
any other significant chunk I'm missing ? Does vmstat -m show memory that is 
not accounted for in vmstat -z.

Thanks,
Sushanth


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