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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: How much memory Do I have?
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Date: 30 May 91 19:29:53 GMT
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I just put 4 megs of SCRAM into my 3000. I noticed a peculiar thing when I
ran avail. It didn't show 6 meg. It showed about 5.7. There was 2 meg of
CHIP and about 3.7 megs of FAST. Does this make sense? Does the avail program
account for what is being used by the operating system? It showed about
3.3 megs of FAST ram available, which means that it was supposedly using about
.5 of what was supposed to be available. I noticed that before I installed my
new memory the operating system was using about .75 megs. If I add that to
my figures it comes out to about 6 megs., which seems to imply that avail is
not accounting for all the memory really available to the system. Any comments?

neil


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