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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) RAM Usage discrepancy Post 302749937 by dasx on Sunday 30th of December 2012 05:48:13 AM
Old 12-30-2012
RAM Usage discrepancy

Hey there! I'm a new user here who registered because I couldn't get these kind of questions answered in the place I directly com from. Smilie

I've found a discrepancy in total RAM used and I can't figure out why it is. My only guess is there are some RAM used by some stuff impossible to identify, but seems pretty unlikely to me.

From the beginning:
1. Launch Activity Monitor and sum the Active Memory + Wired Memory in the Memory tab. This'll give you some number of GB used. (User RAM + system RAM that is if I'm correct).
2. Order processes by RAM and sum their RAM usage. It's not even close. And I'm talking almost 30% off.

Launch terminal and run:
(did it quickly so it's probably a little bit redundant)
Code:
top -l1 -o RSIZE | sed 1,12d | awk '{print $11}' | sed -e 's/[+,-]//g' -e 's/K//g' -e 's/M/*1024/g' | bc
  | awk '{RAM+=$1} END {printf "\nProcesses RAM:\t%.2fGB\n",RAM/1024/1024}';
active=`vm_stat | grep ' active' | awk '{print $3}'`;
wired=`vm_stat | grep wired | awk '{print $4}'`;
echo   $wired $active | awk '{printf "RAM Usage:\t%.2fGB\n\n",($1+$2)*4096/1024/1024/1024}'

It'll print out the total amount of RAM used by processes and then the active + wired RAM.

(See my example in the attached image. As you can see there's around a 25% off in this case).

Any ideas why this happens?
RAM Usage discrepancy-captura-de-pantalla-2012-12-20-la-174227png

Last edited by Scott; 12-30-2012 at 07:05 AM.. Reason: Format code
 

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NAME
systemd-cryptsetup-generator - Unit generator for /etc/crypttab SYNOPSIS
/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-cryptsetup-generator DESCRIPTION
systemd-cryptsetup-generator is a generator that translates /etc/crypttab into native systemd units early at boot and when configuration of the system manager is reloaded. This will create systemd-cryptsetup@.service(8) units as necessary. systemd-cryptsetup-generator implements systemd.generator(7). KERNEL COMMAND LINE
systemd-cryptsetup-generator understands the following kernel command line parameters: luks=, rd.luks= Takes a boolean argument. Defaults to "yes". If "no", disables the generator entirely. rd.luks= is honored only by initial RAM disk (initrd) while luks= is honored by both the main system and the initrd. luks.crypttab=, rd.luks.crypttab= Takes a boolean argument. Defaults to "yes". If "no", causes the generator to ignore any devices configured in /etc/crypttab (luks.uuid= will still work however). rd.luks.crypttab= is honored only by initial RAM disk (initrd) while luks.crypttab= is honored by both the main system and the initrd. luks.uuid=, rd.luks.uuid= Takes a LUKS superblock UUID as argument. This will activate the specified device as part of the boot process as if it was listed in /etc/crypttab. This option may be specified more than once in order to set up multiple devices. rd.luks.uuid= is honored only by initial RAM disk (initrd) while luks.uuid= is honored by both the main system and the initrd. If /etc/crypttab contains entries with the same UUID, then the name, keyfile and options specified there will be used. Otherwise, the device will have the name "luks-UUID". If /etc/crypttab exists, only those UUIDs specified on the kernel command line will be activated in the initrd or the real root. luks.name=, rd.luks.name= Takes a LUKS super block UUID followed by an "=" and a name. This implies rd.luks.uuid= or luks.uuid= and will additionally make the LUKS device given by the UUID appear under the provided name. rd.luks.name= is honored only by initial RAM disk (initrd) while luks.name= is honored by both the main system and the initrd. luks.options=, rd.luks.options= Takes a LUKS super block UUID followed by an "=" and a string of options separated by commas as argument. This will override the options for the given UUID. If only a list of options, without an UUID, is specified, they apply to any UUIDs not specified elsewhere, and without an entry in /etc/crypttab. rd.luks.options= is honored only by initial RAM disk (initrd) while luks.options= is honored by both the main system and the initrd. luks.key=, rd.luks.key= Takes a password file name as argument or a LUKS super block UUID followed by a "=" and a password file name. For those entries specified with rd.luks.uuid= or luks.uuid=, the password file will be set to the one specified by rd.luks.key= or luks.key= of the corresponding UUID, or the password file that was specified without a UUID. rd.luks.key= is honored only by initial RAM disk (initrd) while luks.key= is honored by both the main system and the initrd. SEE ALSO
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