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


Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:25:01 MST


mmmm.. don't think so, I boot right from MacOS into Linux (I use bootx as an
app, not a INIT/CDEV combo)
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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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> From: Roy Koch <rkoch@interaccess.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 21:19:58 -0600
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
>
> 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
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>> "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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