Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 19:53:19 MST
how does 93% less space that what they say sound? They say the HD is x size,
but it's really only 0.93x in size (BEFORE formatting).
That's the ratio of (8.4e9)/(8.4*1024^3)
Bob
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> From: Patrick Callahan <pac1@tiac.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:47:04 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
>
>>
>> An 8.4 "gig" hard disk really isn't. It's 8,400,000,000 bytes. That's
>> significantly less than 8.4GB, but from a marketing perspective, it's 8.4GB.
>>
>> It's always those damn marketing folks getting in the way! :-)
>
> exactly, and all my files fit on about 25% of one of those.
>
> What does the exact count of bytes matter? Somebody going to cheat you out of
> a
> byte or two?
>
> Pat Callahan
> Acton Ma USA
> Programmer and Kohlrabi Rancher
>
>
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