Oh! Sorry! My mistake. I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that again. Which as I understand would be okay for a 16MB system, since the kernel takes about 1MB, but implies that about 16MB is not being found since it is a 32MB system.
On 26-Apr-98 Ben Pfaff wrote: > I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian > yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ > 32MB. > freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the > first > 16MB. > > First, there is no command `freemem' AFAIK. `free' is the command. > > Second, you will rarely if ever see more than a small fraction of your > memory free. Most of the time, it is used up by cache, which gets > freed automatically as necessary. The number you should be concerned > about in the `free' output is Total, which should be somewhere between > 31000 and 32000, approximately, for a 32 MB system. > > HTH, > > Ben. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Apr-98 Time: 14:22:24 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. ---------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]