I think the memory the kernel occupies is not counted against the total, since it is not available to any other program. So your total memory is
physical memory - kernel memory usage = total available memory Diego Biurrun On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:44:02AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey guys. If I do a free on my gateway, I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 14308 13680 628 1468 2428 7068 > -/+ buffers/cache: 4184 10124 > Swap: 96764 6688 90076 > > It has 16 Megs of RAM, so is there a reason why it would show 14.3?
