26 Jul
2002
26 Jul
'02
12:47 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:25:17PM +0530, Manish Jethani wrote:
How can I view the total amount of physical memory, say 256m, available to the system. free(1) shows 250m on my system where I have 256m total.
AFAIK 'free' lists memory available to kernel. It also lists buffer memory used by kernel...under buffers. Add the two values. try free -b as well, becoz free -m takes closest value for conversion. And yes please tell me if it works!( It does for me..64MB RAM) Its only a hypothesis....I've been trying to interpret what 'buffers' means here for a long time now. ciao abhijeet