Re: The kernel is miscalculating my RAM...

Boris Kurktchiev
2003-05-16T06:30:48Z

On Friday May 16 2003 1:42 am, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Boris Kurktchiev wrote:
> > ok here is what dmesg shows:
> > 384MB LOWMEM available.
> >
> > then further down:
> > Memory: 385584k/393216k available
> >
> > now how is the little 38.../39... possible?
>
> 384 * 1024 * 1000 = 393216000
ahh so I am reading it wrong... ok but where is the 7mbs going? I think I
amreading it right this time... and it says that it only uses 385584k as
opposed to the full 393216k... btw the same thing happens with swap there are
only 2mbs eaten up from it though... (I have 128mb and I get only 127mb)