From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
Message-Id: <200305160554.h4G5s8Es010863@green.mif.pg.gda.pl>
Subject: Re: The kernel is miscalculating my RAM...
To: techstuff@gmx.net
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 07:54:08 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (kernel list)
In-Reply-To: <200305160551.h4G5pbYO026350@sunrise.pg.gda.pl> from "Andrzej Krzysztofowicz" at May 16, 2003 07:51:47 AM
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> 
> ok here is what dmesg shows:
> 384MB LOWMEM available.
> 
> then further down:
> Memory: 385584k/393216k available (2010k kernel code, 7244k reserved, 597k 
> data, 128k init, 0k highmem)
        ^^^^

> now how is the little 38.../39... possible? 
> 
> and then top shows this:
> Mem:    385712k total

385584+128=385712

> this again is different than the others...
> 
> and finaly gkrellm is telling me that I have only 377 mb actually recognized 
> out of the 384mb that the kernel detected above...

# echo $((385712/1024))
376
 
> So the question is where does my 7mb go, why that weird 38.../39 difference 
> and why does top report another different value.

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