Re: Memory on new computer

[Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is well known issue. The missing space is occupied by the page table
> index. When pages are 4k in size you need a lot of table entries to describe
> a full 4 gigabytes, like a million of them. Linux seems to have optimized
> this a little. Windows loses a bit more memory, if I recall correctly.

We account for the page tables in our memory report as part of the kernel
memory.

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