Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Jason P. Stanford (Jason.Stanford@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 21:24:20 MST
A hunch:
Memory is 2^n power and disk space is (2^n * 1024). I might be a
little bit off. For example, 1MB of RAM is 2^20=1,048,576 and 1MB of
hard drive space is 1,000 * 1024 = 1,024,000 bytes.
Roy Koch wrote:
>
> Hi Good buddy I wish I knew I can't believe someone here can't answer that
> question?
>
> 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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