Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Roy Koch (rkoch@interaccess.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:19:58 MST
Does Mac OS use some memory before Linux boots?
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
>
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