Re: phew, that's better

Zlatko Calusic (Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr)
09 Jan 1999 09:12:08 +0100


Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org> writes:

> Now I'm trying to figure out why 2.2.0pre5 'free' says I have
> only 30752k memory available when 2.2.0pre4 said I had 30816k
> with an identical configuration.
>
> Jan 3 13:43:08 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.2.0-pre4 (stevev@tzadkiel) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #26 Sun Jan 3 02:24:03 PST 1999
> Jan 3 13:43:08 localhost kernel: Memory: 30776k/32768k available (916k kernel code, 408k reserved, 628k data, 40k init)
>
> [ here 'free' used to report total mem of 30816k, I swear ]
>
> Jan 6 22:35:58 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.2.0-pre5 (stevev@tzadkiel) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #27 Wed Jan 6 21:28:58 PST 1999
> Jan 6 22:35:58 localhost kernel: Memory: 30776k/32768k available (916k kernel code, 408k reserved, 628k data, 40k init)
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux tzadkiel 2.2.0-pre5 #27 Wed Jan 6 21:28:58 PST 1999 i486 unknown
> $ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 30752 29888 864 12384 840 9632
> -/+ buffers/cache: 19416 11336
> Swap: 99324 10900 88424
>

Diff is 64K which is exactly the size of default SB sound buffer. You
played some music on pre5, didn't you? :)

-- 
Zlatko

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