From: Alex Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 5Mb missing...
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:47:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AAF929E.7D1F2F05@baretta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103070958110.1424-100000@mikeg.weiden.de> <l03130302b6d530a44df8@[192.168.239.101]> <3AAF977D.DE602385@evision-ventures.com>
Martin Dalecki wrote:
>
> Jonathan Morton wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Sounds pretty reasonable. I have actually tested the memory card
with memtest, just to make sure that it was all there and working
properly, and the test succeeded, so it must really be the kernel
eating away a few megs.
Alex
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-14 15:50 UTC|newest]
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[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
2001-03-14 15:47 ` Alex Baretta [this message]
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