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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