From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
To: software_iq@TheOffice.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel 2.2.19 Available Memory Bug
Date: 20 Jul 2001 09:56:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ofqf66wb.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B57A9DF.10547.A92B31@localhost>
In-Reply-To: "John L. Males"'s message of "Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:47:43 -0500"
"John L. Males" <software_iq@TheOffice.net> writes:
> The bug I am reporting is that when one sets the amount of memory,
> i.e. 128M, 256M; at the time of booting the 2.2.19 kernel the "Total
> Memory" as reported by KDE, "free", etc is short by a important
> amount. To be more specific I will detail the results of "free"
> below against the "mem" value passed to the kernel. Please note for
> the purposes of this test I always had 256MB or ram (2x128MB)
> installed in my system. The BIOS reports total system memory as
> 262144K.
Not really a bug--the "free" report leaves out the memory devoted to
the kernel, which is unpageable and therefore unavailable to user
apps.
-Doug
--
The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in,
The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time... --Dylan
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2001-07-20 8:47 Linux Kernel 2.2.19 Available Memory Bug John L. Males
2001-07-20 13:56 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
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