Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264310AbTEPGas (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 02:30:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264321AbTEPGar (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 02:30:47 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com ([24.93.67.82]:22963 "EHLO ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264310AbTEPGar (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 02:30:47 -0400 From: Boris Kurktchiev Reply-To: techstuff@gmx.net To: Chris Friesen Subject: Re: The kernel is miscalculating my RAM... Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 02:48:33 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200305131415.37244.techstuff@gmx.net> <200305160003.25262.techstuff@gmx.net> <3EC47A57.30407@nortelnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <3EC47A57.30407@nortelnetworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305160248.33755.techstuff@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 20 On Friday May 16 2003 1:42 am, Chris Friesen wrote: > Boris Kurktchiev wrote: > > ok here is what dmesg shows: > > 384MB LOWMEM available. > > > > then further down: > > Memory: 385584k/393216k available > > > > now how is the little 38.../39... possible? > > 384 * 1024 * 1000 = 393216000 ahh so I am reading it wrong... ok but where is the 7mbs going? I think I amreading it right this time... and it says that it only uses 385584k as opposed to the full 393216k... btw the same thing happens with swap there are only 2mbs eaten up from it though... (I have 128mb and I get only 127mb) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/