Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:19:10 +0000 | From | Thierry Vignaud <> | Subject | Re: 12M only showing as 10M? |
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"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > I just put a 4Mb stick into a 486 that had 8M previously, and now > has 12M total, however meminfo shows that the total memory is > now: 10649600, but that 12050432 is shared. What could cause > this to happen, and why is 12M not showing up? Could it be > something in the machine's BIOS? > > [root@gw /root]# cat /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 10649600 10321920 327680 12050432 372736 4493312 > Swap: 16904192 20480 16883712 > MemTotal: 10400 kB > MemFree: 320 kB > MemShared: 11768 kB > Buffers: 364 kB > Cached: 4388 kB > SwapTotal: 16508 kB > SwapFree: 16488 kB >
because the kernel has eaten 2 Mb for its use (code, data, ..)
-- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ somewhere between the playstation and the super cray --Thierry
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