(mem)

(member)

(mem)

Display the status of the LISP memory.

This function reports on the status of the memory being used by LISP. The parameters reported by mem have the following meanings:

mem	Meaning
Nodes	Total number of nodes allocated to LISP.
Free nodes	Number of nodes freed by garbage collection.
Segments	Number of segments allocated.
Allocate	Size of the segment.
Collections	Number of garbage collections.

Example

Code	Returns
(mem)	Nodes: 33934 Free nodes: 1744 Segments: 40 Allocate: 514 Collections: 24

NOTE A node is 12 bytes.

The default size of a segment is 514 nodes. Use the alloc function to change the size of the segment. Use the expand function to change the number of segments.

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