> I just noticed this same thing at work, I have 16Meg Ram, and it only
> says I have 14Meg. What's up???
>
> ---russ
If you look at the boot up messages, you find that the rest of the
memory is used by the kernel.
Memory: 14836k/16384k available (672k kernel code, 384k reserved, 492k data)
Hence, free shows only 14Meg of mem.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 14836 11520 3316 3744 5912 2312
-/+ buffers: 5608 9228
Swap: 24692 1504 23188
--Sanjay
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