Re: 5Mb missing...

[Jonathan Morton]

>> 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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