[vox-tech] Physical Memory vs. Reported Memory
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[vox-tech] Physical Memory vs. Reported Memory
Another newbie question:
The hardware memory check during boot reports
320MB of memory, which is correct. There are
physical 256MB and 64MB memory modules. But,
'free' and 'top' report much less. Free, with
the 'm' option reports 62MB available.
Top reports about 64MB available.
The documentation 'man top' states:
'Statistics on memory usage, including total
available memory, ...'.
Which seem to indicate that top is reporting
total physical memory.
My usual questions:
1. What's going on here?
2. Do I have a problem and how do I fix it.
3. Any pointers to online resources would be much
appreciated.
Please see below for output from free and top.
I'm sorry that line wrapping may make it
difficult to read.
Warm Regards,
Jim
------------------------------------
output from: free -m
total used free shared
buffers cached
Mem: 62 33 28 49
2 16
-/+ buffers/cache: 14 48
Swap: 321 0 321
------------------------------------
output from: top -n 1 b
10:24am up 44 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00,
0.00, 0.00
57 processes: 56 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0
stopped
CPU states: 0.8% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice,
98.4% idle
Mem: 63940K av, 62060K used, 1880K free,
51356K shrd, 8712K buff
Swap: 329292K av, 4692K used, 324600K free
26748K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM
TIME COMMAND
1193 root 17 0 1028 1028 812 R 0.9 1.6
0:00 top
<the rest is snipped>
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
|
