On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:16 PM, ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Btw., for another guy's question (that I can't seem to google), in this: > > 6553 avail kvaslots > > does that mean Kernel Virtual Address space SLOTS (whatever slots mean in > this context)? Or does it stand for Kernel Virtual Address Space LayOuT > Space or something similar?
It's just the word slot. slot, noun: ... 2. an allotted place in an arrangement or plan such as a broadcasting schedule. That page is the iostat page in systat; the column on the right are the buffer cache statistics. The buffer cache limits how many concurrent KVA allocations it can use for busy buffers (approx: being used for reads or writes); those are the kvaslots being reported there. Philip Guenther
