Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Free memory | Date | Tue, 21 May 1996 13:34:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Marko Siladin" <> |
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I guess this issue has probably been discussed already but I'm really interested to see if it can be solved. Yesterday after installing an aditional 16 MB and bringing my system up to 24 I started up linux, went into X. Ran a couple of applications. Went back to the prompt (I exited X). Ran a couple of other apps (just to see how fast my system whith the new memory is) and then I exited out of all VT. Then I logged back in onto just one VT (as root) and typed : free. It said that more than 22MB!! of memory was used!! (not including buffers and shared). Whats going on? I did not run any additional apps to see if more memory was used by the system (i.e. if just the report on memory consumtion was "wrong" or if that memory was really marked as "used"). My basic question here is -> does anyone know where the problem is to this obiously wrong information?
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