Re: The kernel is miscalculating my RAM...

Boris Kurktchiev
2003-05-16T06:32:47Z

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
blah someone already answered my question about the missing 7mbs... is there a
doc that tell swhy the kernel reserves that much memory?