'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM


Subject: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 18:56:53 MST


okay, i know everyone is excited about 1.2 coming out, but this is just
something I'm curious about: why 'free' and 'top' show the incorrect about
of RAM being in my machine (B&W G3/400 rev. 2)

[rfout@bigblue rfout]$ free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127312 24844 102468 16608 940 14880
-/+ buffers/cache: 9024 118288
Swap: 131096 0 131096

I have 128 of RAM, and 128 MB of swap (the amount of swap is shown okay, but
not RAM)

127312/1024=124.328125

I used RHL 6.1 a PIII/500 at school (with 64 MB of RAM) and 'free' on those
machines showed them as having ‰62 MB of RAM.

Using

What the heck is causing this.. is the ROM being stored in RAM... but that
wouldn't make sense on the PC?

Bob

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