Re: Memory problem....
Oh! Sorry! My mistake.
I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that
again.
Which as I understand would be okay for a 16MB system, since the kernel takes
about 1MB, but implies that about 16MB is not being found since it is a 32MB
system.
On 26-Apr-98 Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian
> yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/
> 32MB.
> freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the
> first
> 16MB.
>
> First, there is no command `freemem' AFAIK. `free' is the command.
>
> Second, you will rarely if ever see more than a small fraction of your
> memory free. Most of the time, it is used up by cache, which gets
> freed automatically as necessary. The number you should be concerned
> about in the `free' output is Total, which should be somewhere between
> 31000 and 32000, approximately, for a 32 MB system.
>
> HTH,
>
> Ben.
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