On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Saturday 21 October 2006 18:19, Ron Youvan wrote:
>>>
>>> Now some of you have 1GB RAM. When you run a check on that the number
>>> that shows up is 1,048,048.
>>>
>>> How do they arrive at 1,048,048?
>>
>> What is 1024 X 1024 ? (1048576) minus some kind of over head.
>> (like the directory structure ???)
>
> Yes that's the simple and somehow too obvious answer. We know to 1024 on the
> one side of the equation, and a thousand of those we still want to think is
> 1,000. Quite right!
Wait, I concur with the "some kind of overhead" statement, but why would
there be a directory structure in RAM? What can you fit in 2^20 - 1048048 =
528 bytes anyway?
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Answer: two spoonfuls in my cup, please.
Question: how much should I use? (why top-posting is bad)
http://www.fscked.co.uk/writing/top-posting-cuss.html
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