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Subject: [Discuss] Limiting amount of memory
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:58:56 -0400
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Tim Callaghan wrote:
> What am I missing?

free tells you what's available, not what's actually detected, for a 
variety of reasons. What you really want is the first line of /proc/meminfo.

   head -1 /proc/meminfo

That will tell you precisely how much real, physical memory the kernel 
detects.

-- 
Rich P.

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