Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 20:11:53 MST
but the same thing happened on a PIII/500 with RHL 6.1 too, that CAN'T be a
NW Rom thing.
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> From: Jack Valois <jvalois@pacbell.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:54:22 -0800
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
>
> on 3/1/00 6:15 PM, Robert Fout at rfout@mahi.damien.edu wrote:
>
>> How's come free (and top) show my machine as having 124 MB of RAM, when it
>> has 128 MB? I noticed that RHL 6.1 does the same thing, shows that the
>> machine has less RAM that what it actually has).
>>
>> I'm using YDL CS 1.1 on a B&W G3/400 rev. 2.
>>
>> free and top with DR3 on an 8100/80 shows the 'correct' amount of RAM, so
>> why the diff with YDL and RHL?
>>
> I'm not exactly sure, but I bet it has something to do with one being a new
> world ROM machine and the other is not. My guess would be that OF is
> changing the amount of ram stored in the device tree.
>
> Jack
>
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