MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved
              bits and the kernel binary code)

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at a server and ran  cat /proc/meminfo  and got:
>
> MemTotal:        3781692 kB
>
> I was expecting 2GB or 4GB.
>
> According to https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s2-
> proc-meminfo.html MemTotal is total RAM.  In their example they show:
>
> MemTotal:       255908 kB
>
> and say that is 256MB of RAM.
>
> 256MB = 262144KB.  Am I wrong?
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks!!
>
>
>
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