Re: Total memory vs. available memory

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> total memory = 5118 MB
> avail memory = 4952 MB
>
> Out of interest: where did the 166MB go that aren't available?
> Is that some PC voodoo where some memor gets lost because of some
> address space conflict? I can't believe that the kernel itself
> uses 166MB.

The difference is whatever the kernel needs for its own bookkeeping.
It's not specific to the amd64 or x86 port, but you can see a similar 
difference on all NetBSD platforms.


 - Hubert