Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:32:50 MST
I know very little about MkLinux, so I may be full of it here ;) But my
understanding is that MkLinux is an implementation of Linux functionality
on top of the Mach microkernel. As opposed to the monolithic Linux kernel
used with Yellow Dog, LinuxPPC, etc. This would seem to imply that things
like top and free might very likely have a slightly different view of low
level resources, such as available memory.
Jim
Robert Fout's bits of Thu, 2 Mar 2000 translated to:
>That sounds like the most plausible answer so far, but why would the top and
>free that come with MKL DR3 show me the 'true' amount of RAM?
>
>Upon thinking more.. wouldn't the RAM used by the kernel show up under the
>'used' column?
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>> From: Jeff Ridder <jridder@gci.net>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:00:57 -0900
>> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
>> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
>>
>> 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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