Hi,
On Mon, Feb 15, W.H. Dekker wrote:
> I have 128 MB of internal memory. During bootup I have memory checking
> and I see all 128 MB being checked. Nevertheless, the free command
> says:
>
> /root>free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 64208 62508 1700 33868 4256 42940
> -/+ buffers/cache: 15312 48896
> Swap: 0 0 0
> /root>
>
> - Is there something wrong in my setup?
No. Unfortunately the BIOS reporting of the memory size is not really
standardized, so there are some machines where Linux only recognizes 64
MB. You need to tell Linux manually about the amount of memory. Just add
"mem=128M" to the append line of LILO.
> - Is it normal to use so much memory (61 MB) while X is running with
> 2 xterms and 1 emacs?
Yes, look at the numbers of free. Much memory is being used for disk
caching. Think of it this way: Linux has a very sophisticated
"smartdrive". Any unneeded memory is being used for buffers or disk
caching. So you will almost always have all memory used. Unused memory is
wasted memory!
> - I copied the top of top's display below, sorted on memory usage,
> does it give any clues?
Everything is perfectly fine. If you add the "mem=128M" you will see that
after some time all memory will be used again. This is normal and very
senseful.
> Hartelijke groet, Wybo Dekker
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