Edward Dekkers wrote:
> 
> > You forgot the memory taken up by the kernel.  This does not show up in
> > with the free command.  I have seen bigger discrepencys when you have
> > onboard video - some systems use part of the main memory for video
> > memory, and you select how much video ram in your BIOS.
> >
> > Mikkel
> 
> Right on Mikkel
> 
> Also, if the system is shadowing the system or video BIOS - you lose another
> section.
> 
> If I turn OFF shadowing of ROMS in my PC I get exactly 131072 bytes showing
> BEFORE Linux loads.
> 

Isn't there a performance gain achieved by shadwoing the rom?  I have
been doing this for so long I forget whay I started it in the beginning
of my pc years on my first xt clone.

Bret



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