Re: free memory

[Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>]

I think the memory the kernel occupies is not counted against the total,
since it is not available to any other program. So your total memory is

physical memory - kernel memory usage = total available memory

Diego Biurrun

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:44:02AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>     Hey guys. If I do a free on my gateway, I get:
> 
> [msoulier@jumpgate msoulier]$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         14308      13680        628       1468       2428       7068
> -/+ buffers/cache:       4184      10124
> Swap:        96764       6688      90076
> 
>     It has 16 Megs of RAM, so is there a reason why it would show 14.3?