Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
ssalvi@just4clicks.com
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 16:48:10 MST
FYI
iMAC/Rev1 266 running 1.1...mem & swap reported correctly...
6:51pm up 73 days, 7:52, 26 users, load average: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00
72 processes: 71 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 98.6% idle
Mem: 127324K av, 115596K used, 11728K free, 85028K shrd, 16156K buff
Swap: 131064K av, 1360K used, 129704K free 29248K cached
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Roy Koch
<rkoch@intera To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
ccess.com> cc:
Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
03/02/00
06:39 PM
Please
respond to
yellowdog-gen
eral
Hi Good buddy I wish I knew I can't believe someone here can't answer that
question?
Robert Fout wrote:
> 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
>
> ---------------------------------------
> "The knack to flying is learning how to
> throw yourself at the ground and miss."
>
> >From "Life the Universe and Everything"
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>
> Robert Fout
> MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
> rfout@damien.edu
> http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
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