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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list