On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:31:10PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote:
| --begin quoted message from Adam Majer,
| > Did you try a different kernel?
|
| even more interesting...
| the 2.2.20 kernel reports:
|
| total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
| Mem: 994078720 42676224 951402496 10178560 8065024 21536768
| MemTotal: 970780 kB
| ...
use 'free -m' to see smaller (easier to read) numbers.
| which is better, but still inaccurate... (and not what I told it)
Check dmesg -- some memory is used for the kernel itself and isn't
available for processes to use.
On my system I have 256MB real RAM.
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 249 175 74 0 5 65
-/+ buffers/cache: 104 145
Swap: 243 68 175
It shows a total of only 249MB. dmesg shows :
$ dmesg | grep Memory
Memory: 255676k/262080k available (1111k kernel code, 6016k reserved,
300k data, 228k init, 0k highmem)
The "missing" memory is used by the kernel.
-D
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