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Memory by free(SOLVED)



$ free -k # for 256MB machine
             total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
Mem:        257136     230456      26680      45736     116136 75528
-/+ buffers/cache:      38792     218344
Swap:       264996          0     264996

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:19:42AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>     $ grep '^Memory' /var/log/dmesg
Memory: 256984k/262144k available (1652k kernel code, 412k reserved,
2944k data, 152k init)
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Now I got good understanding.

Total memory                  = 262144k = 256M (1k=1024, 1M=1024k)
Free memory at dmesg(256984k) = Total - kernel - reserved - data - init
Free memory at shell(257136k) = Total - kernel - reserved - data

You are always helpful.  Thanks Karsten.

Osamu
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