Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264324AbTEPGcr (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 02:32:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264325AbTEPGcq (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 02:32:46 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com ([24.93.67.82]:22964 "EHLO ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264324AbTEPGcp (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 02:32:45 -0400 From: Boris Kurktchiev Reply-To: techstuff@gmx.net To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The kernel is miscalculating my RAM... Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 02:50:36 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 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: <200305160250.36764.techstuff@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 18 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 blah someone already answered my question about the missing 7mbs... is there a doc that tell swhy the kernel reserves that much memory? - 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/