On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 16:57 +0200, joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
Hi, Aaron,
I see. But this does not explain _why_ something is lost. The man
page
of the "free" cmd should be improved in a manner that "free" does not
show the _whole_ physical memory size, but a reduced one.
I'm wondering that nobody complains about this "hole".
Someone else
pointed out this extra memory is reserved for the kernel
and the BIOS.
Rahul once explained how this arithmetic goes but I can't reproduce his
explanation. It involves using the buffer/cache display in the
calculation.
But there is something wrong with the display of free.
Look at the -o option explanation which does not seem to do what it says
it does.
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