Re: ram question
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Norbert Veber wrote:
> My system has 32 megs of ram, however free, and top report only 30'ish, is
> that the way it should be?
>
> nveber@vtech[~]$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 30652 30020 632 16768 148 9248
> -/+ buffers/cache: 20624 10028
> Swap: 64260 22064 42196
> nveber@vtech[~]$
>
> Is the system wasting 2 of my megs? If so, what can I do?
free/top don't report the memory used by the linux kernel as part of your
free memory. That can amount to 1-2M, so this appears to be correct for
your system.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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