On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > My system has 32 megs of ram, however free, and top report only 30'ish, is > that the way it should be? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 30652 30020 632 16768 148 9248 > -/+ buffers/cache: 20624 10028 > Swap: 64260 22064 42196 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is the system wasting 2 of my megs? If so, what can I do?
free/top don't report the memory used by the linux kernel as part of your free memory. That can amount to 1-2M, so this appears to be correct for your system. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
