On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 09:13 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> reading the man page of the command free with option -b:
>
> The -b switch displays the amount of memory in bytes
>
> But: I have 2 Gigbyte memory machine, and the command "free -b" displays 2109034496.
> But (((2109034496/1024)/1024)/1024) is not the integer 2.
>
> Can somebody explain this? BIOS effect?
Why don't you do: free -m and free -g and maybe it will become clearer.
I have 1g ram and :
free -g gives me:
free -g
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 0 0 0 0 0
0
-/+ buffers/cache: 0 0
Swap: 1 0 1
and:
free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 1010 751 258 0 36
420
-/+ buffers/cache: 294 716
Swap: 1913 0 1913
as you can see something is lost from the memory size.
