Re: 5Mb missing...

2001-03-14 Thread Alex Baretta
Martin Dalecki wrote: > > Jonathan Morton wrote: > > > > The kernel itself takes up some RAM, which is simply subtracted from the > > "total memory available" field in the memory summaries available to > > user-mode processes. This is perfectly normal. > > The kernel reserves 4m for hilself. Th

Re: 5Mb missing...

2001-03-14 Thread Martin Dalecki
Jonathan Morton wrote: > > >> If crashes are routine on this machine, I'd recommend that you take > >> a serious look at your ram. (or if you're overclocking, don't) > > > >Crashes were routine, and I was not overclocking, so I took Mike's > >advice and bought a new 256MB DIMM. The computer hasn'

Re: 5Mb missing...

2001-03-14 Thread Jonathan Morton
>> If crashes are routine on this machine, I'd recommend that you take >> a serious look at your ram. (or if you're overclocking, don't) > >Crashes were routine, and I was not overclocking, so I took Mike's >advice and bought a new 256MB DIMM. The computer hasn't crashed >once since I installed it

Re: 5Mb missing...

2001-03-14 Thread Mike Dresser
Alex Baretta wrote: > [alex@localhost /home]$ free -m > total used free sharedbuffers > cached > Mem: 251209 42 60 > 61 92 > > I strongly doubt this can be a bug in the kernel. Could anyone > explain to me why this might h

Re: 5Mb missing...

2001-03-14 Thread Mordechai Ovits
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:06:09PM +0100, Alex Baretta wrote: > Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > If crashes are routine on this machine, I'd recommend that you take > > a serious look at your ram. (or if you're overclocking, don't) > > Crashes were routine, and I was not overclocking, so I took Mik