Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 20:25:56 MST
I am properly dividing the KB by 1024 to get MB... when I boot into Linux
i'll e-mail what top and free show.. an odd note. running RHL 6.1 on a
machine with 64 MB of RAM, top/free show it as having 62 MB.. running YDL on
a machine with 128 MB shows me as having only 124 MB of RAM... so with both
versions of linux, on both a mac and a pc, you are "losing" 2 MB per 64 MB
in the machine.
Bob
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> From: Jim Cole <greyleaf@yggdrasill.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:24:56 -0700 (MST)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
>
> 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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