[Gllug] Missing RAM

[David L Neil Mailing list a/c]

John Southern wrote:
...
> free -g gives 1GB.
> free gives 2072544
> OK so rounding causes it to drop the second GB.
> However my question is where is the missing 24608 bytes.
> On another machine with 2GB free (or proc/cat/meminfo) shows the total memory 
> as 2033816 which is 63336 bytes short.
> The question is what uses this tiny amount of memory and why is it not an 
> exact number of K such as 24, 32 or 64?
> On a 1GB machine I find it is missing 16600 bytes and yet another 2GB machine 
> it is 32548 bytes.
> John

Is free smart enough to compensate for some old machines 'sharing' RAM 
for use as video memory?

Regards,
=dn
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