From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
Cc: Alex Baretta <alex@baretta.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 5Mb missing...
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:08:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AAF977D.DE602385@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103070958110.1424-100000@mikeg.weiden.de> <l03130302b6d530a44df8@[192.168.239.101]>
Jonathan Morton wrote:
>
> >> If crashes are routine on this machine, I'd recommend that you take
> >> a serious look at your ram. (or if you're overclocking, don't)
> >
> >Crashes were routine, and I was not overclocking, so I took Mike's
> >advice and bought a new 256MB DIMM. The computer hasn't crashed
> >once since I installed it. Now, though, I have a curious though
> >fairly irrelevant problem. My kernel apparently sees less RAM than
> >I have.
>
> The kernel itself takes up some RAM, which is simply subtracted from the
> "total memory available" field in the memory summaries available to
> user-mode processes. This is perfectly normal.
The kernel reserves 4m for hilself. The off by one error is a rounding
bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-14 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103070958110.1424-100000@mikeg.weiden.de>
2001-03-14 14:06 ` 5Mb missing Alex Baretta
2001-03-14 14:38 ` Mike Dresser
2001-03-14 14:41 ` Mordechai Ovits
2001-03-14 14:30 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-14 16:08 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2001-03-14 15:47 ` Alex Baretta
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