real vs. avail memory
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Oct 12 07:10:00 PDT 2003
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> dmesg on a new P4 system:
>
> real memory =3D 1073676288 (1023 MB)
> avail memory =3D 1037799424 (989 MB)
>
> That's a full 40 MB difference... where does that memory go? is it
> used for page maps or something like that?
34M, as I figure it. Is this an Intel motherboard, or other motherboard
with integrated video adapter? That could be "shared" memory used for
the video.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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