Right. Just seems funny to not include that somewhere. I can get the total
from here:
[msoulier@lupus msoulier]$ dmesg | grep RAM
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
But I just would have figured that total would mean total. ;-) No biggy.
Mike
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:18:02PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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?
>
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