On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Zhigao Yao wrote:
> My PC has 128M system memory. When I boot it, the memory test shows exact
> 131072KB. But in Linux, the memory info (/proc/meminfo) shows the total
> memory as 131084288 bytes, which is 128012KB. Why is the difference? I
> don't have any "shared memory" reserved.
The "missing" memory is the memory where the kernel is loaded. It is
allocated at the boot. So the "total" is the memory available after the
kernel has been decompressed.
Best regards,
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