Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 02:10:38 MST
Patrick Callahan's bits of Fri, 3 Mar 2000 translated to:
>>
>> An 8.4 "gig" hard disk really isn't. It's 8,400,000,000 bytes. That's
>> significantly less than 8.4GB, but from a marketing perspective, it's 8.4GB.
>>
>> It's always those damn marketing folks getting in the way! :-)
>
>exactly, and all my files fit on about 25% of one of those.
>
>What does the exact count of bytes matter? Somebody going to cheat you out of a
>byte or two?
Although it probably got lost somewhere in the thread, an exact count was
relevant at one point :) People were trying to determine an *exact*
accounting for the amount of available memory shown by top and free. It
was necessary to use a computer science MB rather than a marketing MB to
for that particular purpose. The thread took something of a detour along
the way ;)
Jim
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