On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> wrote:
> It seems as though free won't return the accurate size. I also have 4 gb of RAM (new Quadcore Intel) and 'free -g' reports '3' as well, I suspect this is underrounding to the extreme, and 'free -gb' returns a more realistic number: f...@newbox:~$ free -gb total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4018106368 3988586496 29519872 0 26746880 2479407104 -/+ buffers/cache: 1482432512 2535673856 Swap: 8389775360 5529600 8384245760 It isn't that RAM has a FAT - those things only are present on filesystems. It is more likely that free's interpretation doesn't include kernel memory. Also, 4gb may be 4*1024*1024 not 4*1000*1000, although that is more likely to be a concern with hard disk capacity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org