On 01/31/2009 03:27 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
Try to run `free' to get a more detailed break up (or even "cat
/proc/meminfo").
Running free -g on my system returns 3. I have 4.
Running cat /proc/meminfo returns 4030668KB, which is 3.84GB according
That's 4030668*1024 = 4,127,404,032.
to onlineconversion, closer. Does RAM also have a sort of FAT?
4GB = 4,294,967,296.
So, where's the missing 167,563,264 bytes? (I.e. 40,909 4KB pages.)
It seems as though free won't return the accurate size.
Of course it does. "We", though, aren't kernel hackers or h/w
gurus, so are left in the dark.
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