[TriLUG] Understanding output of "free"

[Dan Chen]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:24:39PM -0400, James LewisMoss wrote:
> There are several things to check out here.
> 1) Make sure the kernel is compiled to use that much mem (I think the
>    default compile won't go beyond 3/4 of a gig or so  check me on
>    this.)

Correct, both 2.{4,5} have CONFIG_HIGHMEM deselected (not to be confused
with dselected! ;-) by default. 896MB is the max recognized by default
if one does not have HIGHMEM support compiled in.

>  Jeremy> I'm trying to figure out whether this box really needs more
>  Jeremy> physical RAM or not.  The extremely tight budget is becoming
>  Jeremy> even tighter...
> 
> Doesn't look like it.

I second this.

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
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