Re: Use of Swap Space

["Mirko Scurk" <mdebian@sfsb.hr>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/31/2009 03:27 PM, Nuno MagalhĂŁes wrote:
>>> Try to run `free' to get a more detailed break up (or even "cat
>>> /proc/meminfo").
>>
>> Running free -g on my system returns 3. I have 4.
>> Running cat /proc/meminfo returns 4030668KB, which is 3.84GB according
>
> That's 4030668*1024 = 4,127,404,032.
>
>> to onlineconversion, closer. Does RAM also have a sort of FAT?
>
> 4GB = 4,294,967,296.
>
> So, where's the missing 167,563,264 bytes?  (I.e. 40,909 4KB pages.)
>
>> It seems as though free won't return the accurate size.
>
> Of course it does.  "We", though, aren't kernel hackers or h/w
> gurus, so are left in the dark.
>
> --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA
>

Could it be that 32-bit Debian can't access rest of memory?

-- 
Mirko Scurk