Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:52:09 MST
ahh.. and that would explain why RHL 6.1 shows the same info as YDL 1.1....
hmm... can anyone tried this on Darwin/MacOS X (since they're also Mach
based, granted, they use the BSD kernel, not the Linux kernel)???
Bob
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> From: Jim Cole <greyleaf@yggdrasill.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:32:50 -0700 (MST)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
>
> 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?
>> ---------------------------------------
>> "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
>>
>>> 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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