[KLUG Members] RAM usage in redhat 8.0

[Adam Williams]

>Just curious, when I type in 'free' at the terminal, I get 123.22 MB
>( 126180 KB) Total RAM. I'm using a pentium II 266 MHZ Dell Optiplex GX1 
>with 128 MB RAM and RedHat 8.0. I was wondering what the other 5 MB of 
>RAM was doing ;) or did I just get my math wrong?

Unlike other OSs Linux only reports the usable amount of RAM.  That other 
5Mb is probably mapped over BIOS and/or allocated to some subsystem (video 
usually) as a shared space.