The case of the missing 64 meg...

[Ernie Pasveer <epasveer@home.com>]

I was hoping someone could help me.

I have a system with 128 meg. of memory but I believe Linux only
sees half of it and the rest is wasted.

Here's an output from 'top'

53 processes: 51 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU states: 33.2% user, 11.8% system,  0.0% nice, 55.0% idle
Mem:    64236K av,  40180K used,  24056K free,  10932K shrd,    2548K buff
Swap: 130748K av,  28484K used, 102264K free                                14476K cached

  PID USER        PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM    TIME COMMAND
 1262 erniep      14    0    744  744    572 R            0 23.7  1.1    0:01 top
  601 root        10    0  1932 1128    672 S            0 14.2  1.7    0:11 kvt
  350 root         4    0  9184 4216    568 S            0  7.1  6.5    1:51 XF86_Mach64
    1 root         0    0    112    76      56 S            0  0.0  0.1    0:02 init
    2 root         0    0        0      0        0 SW          0  0.0  0.0    0:00 kflushd
    3 root        -12 -12        0      0        0 SW<        0  0.0  0.0    0:00 kswapd


Notice my Mem: av says 64236K available, 40180K used, 24056K free. I'm missing 64 meg.
Am I wrong? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

--ernie  :^)

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