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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> What is the smallest amount of RAM BL3 can be run in with one vc and not
> using X?  We have a laptop computer, this one with a good floppy drive,
> enough space on the hard drive for BL3, but 2M RAM.
> 

I just set mem=3M and booted BL3 with 1vc in inittab.  total memory 1712, 
used 1524, free 188.  After ppp-on this changes to 1508 used 204 free.
I can dial and telnet with 3M RAM.   I am telnetted that way now.

Unless I am misreading my notes, with 4M RAM I had total memoery 2724,
2476 used, 248 free. WHat is going on here?  Why does booting with 1M more
RAM cause almost 1M more RAM to be used?

Am I reading the results of 'free' incorrectly?  

We have a 386 with 3M RAM which should work with BL3 for telnetting
(except it has a 30M HD which is nearly full already) but probably not for
browsing.  Lynx/DOS works there.