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From: Dave Uhring <duhring@charter.net>
To: "Peter C. Verhage" <petercv@zeelandnet.nl>, <stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Memory upgrade
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:26:08 -0500
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On Tuesday 19 June 2001 23:15, Peter C. Verhage wrote:
> Yesterday I upgraded my computer, I added an extra 128 MB of memory, what
> makes it a total of 256 MB.
>
> But I noticed the following kernel log messages:
> > real memory  = 268435456 (262144K bytes)
> > avail memory = 258211840 (252160K bytes)
>
> Why is this? And what can be done to make avail memory equal to real
> memory?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter

The kernel takes some and reports what is left.

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