Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:55:07 MST
Wouldn't it seem odd to have two different definitions of MB... anyone here
have some serious college degrees in computer science? I'm pretty sure that
a MB is a MB is a MB (2^20 or 1024^2)
Bob
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"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
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ICQ# 48433406
> From: "Jason P. Stanford" <Jason.Stanford@pobox.com>
> Organization: Sayonara Lehigh!
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:24:20 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
>
> 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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