Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 21:33:03 MST
In the strictest computer science sense, a MB is 1024^2 as you say. This
applies to both RAM and disk space.
Jim
Robert Fout's bits of Thu, 2 Mar 2000 translated to:
>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
>---------------------------------------
>"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: "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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