Re: The kernel is miscalculating my RAM...

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2003-05-16T05:41:17Z

>
> ok here is what dmesg shows:
> 384MB LOWMEM available.
>
> then further down:
> Memory: 385584k/393216k available (2010k kernel code, 7244k reserved, 597k
> data, 128k init, 0k highmem)
^^^^

> now how is the little 38.../39... possible?
>
> and then top shows this:
> Mem: 385712k total

385584+128=385712

> this again is different than the others...
>
> and finaly gkrellm is telling me that I have only 377 mb actually recognized
> out of the 384mb that the kernel detected above...

# echo $((385712/1024))
376

> So the question is where does my 7mb go, why that weird 38.../39 difference
> and why does top report another different value.

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