Re: 'free' and 'top' question


Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 20:24:56 MST


Jack Valois's bits of Wed, 1 Mar 2000 translated to:

>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

Might also be due, in part, to the fact that top and free report values in
KB. A KB is 1024 bytes, so if you are seeing 124000K, it is really more
like ~127 MB. Unless you are already accounting for this.

Jim



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