Re: 5Mb missing...

[Martin Dalecki]

Jonathan Morton wrote:
> 
> >> 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.

The kernel reserves 4m for hilself. The off by one error is a rounding
bug.