[ale] Memory.

[vernard at cc.gatech.edu (Vernard Martin)]

> 	I was looking at my linux box yesterday and found this 'free'
> command which tells you the amount of memory, free memory etc. I have
> 8 MB on my machine, DOS sees it, I can physically see it. But when I 
> do free, it shows only 6MB!! Can anybody tell me why?

The kernel itself plus all of its static buffers is probably taking up the
missing 2 MB. That is not available for other programs to use so it isn't
listed by the "free" command. Use "dmesg" to see how large your kernel is.

V
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