Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 19:58:23 MST
You have 124.3398438 MB of RAM??? (127324/1024)
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Robert Fout
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> From: ssalvi@just4clicks.com
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> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:48:10 -0800
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
>
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> 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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> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
> 03/02/00
> 06:39 PM
> Please
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> Hi Good buddy I wish I knew I can't believe someone here can't answer that
> question?
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> Robert Fout wrote:
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>> 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"
>> by Douglas Adams
>>
>> Robert Fout
>> MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
>> rfout@damien.edu
>> http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
>> ICQ# 48433406
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