Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 20:41:43 MST
but free and top on MKL DR3 show it correct, but both (the newer) YDL 1.1
and RHL 6.1 show it 'incorrect'. I'm pretty sure (99.999%) that a MB
(megabyte) [not Mb (megabit)] is 1024^2 bytes. that's just the standard,
since 1024 is a binary number 2^10
Bob
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> From: Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:28:47 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
>
> At 9:11 PM -0600 3/1/00, Robert Fout wrote:
>> but the same thing happened on a PIII/500 with RHL 6.1 too, that CAN'T be a
>> NW Rom thing.
>
> It's probably just different defintions of "Mb". Sometimes it means
> 1000000 bytes. Occasionally it means 1000 * 1024 bytes. Sometimes
> it means 1024 * 1024 bytes. The man page for free tells you what's
> happening (I have 8 + 16 + 64 "Mb"):
>
> linux% free -b
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 89006080 68497408 20508672 9302016 5787648 42102784
> -/+ buffers/cache: 20606976 68399104
> Swap: 134209536 14827520 119382016
> linux% free -m
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 84 65 19 8 5 40
> -/+ buffers/cache: 19 65
> Swap: 127 14 113
> linux% free -k
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 86920 66892 20028 9084 5652 41116
> -/+ buffers/cache: 20124 66796
> Swap: 131064 14480 116584
>
> As the man page for top(1) says, it shows memory in kb (== 1024 bytes).
>
>> ---------------------------------------
>> "The knack to flying is learning how to
>> throw yourself at the ground and miss."
>>
>>> From "Life the Universe and Everything"
>> by Douglas Adams
>>
>> Robert Fout
>> MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
>> rfout@damien.edu
>> http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
>> ICQ# 48433406
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>
> --
> --
> Paul Schinder
> schinder@pobox.com
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