Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:30:14 +0000 | From | Jonathan Morton <> | Subject | Re: 5Mb missing... |
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>> If crashes are routine on this machine, I'd recommend that you take >> a serious look at your ram. (or if you're overclocking, don't) > >Crashes were routine, and I was not overclocking, so I took Mike's >advice and bought a new 256MB DIMM. The computer hasn't crashed >once since I installed it. Now, though, I have a curious though >fairly irrelevant problem. My kernel apparently sees less RAM than >I have.
The kernel itself takes up some RAM, which is simply subtracted from the "total memory available" field in the memory summaries available to user-mode processes. This is perfectly normal.
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