Memory: Bios total 262144K - top total 14332K

["John-Paul Delaney" <John-Paul Delaney wfp org>]

Hello List...

I appear to have a memory configuration problem.  The difference between 
the system bios and what free/top reports as total memory seems very odd. 

free -m reports 13 as total mem!

Is it possible to tell the OS how much memory is available?

thanks
/j-p.