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- From: ecsjols@klecsd.ericsson.se (Joakim Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The mystery of the lost 1 Kb ChipMem
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:08:25 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
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- On Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:22:35 GMT, rbos@metropolis.nl (rbos) wrote:
-
- >Hello everyone!
- >
- >Maybe someone here can solve this mystery:
- >
- >When I type avail in the Shell I get the following output:
- >
- >Type Available In-Use Maximum Largest
- >chip 1915000 181128 2096128 1907312
- >fast 2663384 1530920 4194304 2653936
- >total 4578384 1712048 6290432 2653936
- >
- >Nothing strange here, or is there... When you check the maximum amount of
- >ChipMem availeble and divide it by 1024 (=1 Kb) you will get 2047! Since I own
- >a A1200 it should have been 2048 Kb of ChipMem, so where did that 1kB of
- >chipmem go?
-
- >2) The 1 Kb is always used by some strange part of the OS. Again this is
- > not very likely, because the OS uses more then one Kb and all those
- > other used Kbs can be found under the 'In-Use' colomn of avail.
-
- The first 1024 bytes of chipmem are unavailable to you, it's allocated by
- the OS at boot-up time.
-
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