Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Jeff Ridder (jridder@gci.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:00:57 MST
My hunch is that this doesn't include what memory the kernel is taking,
since I would think this memory that you can't use and its not swappable.
Jeff Ridder
jridder@gci.net
> From: Vanja Bucic <vanjab@UDel.Edu>
> Organization: Bartol Research Institute
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 21:53:35 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
>
> 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)
>
> You got me interested, so I checked it on my machine (All-in-one Mac)
> and it showed that it had 61.xx M of ram.
> Mem: 62704 !!!
>
> I don't have to mention that the machine has 64 Megs of ram.
>
> Interesting, but I have no answer for you.
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