Re: 12M only showing as 10M?
Thierry Vignaud (tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:19:10 +0000
"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, ..)
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--Thierry
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