This doesn't really seem to be a problem, but it's a percieved problem at least with some of the people I do work for, and I need a good answer to tell them (and an accurate one, last time I made something up to shut up a client I ended up getting in trouble ;) .
Anyhow, after I upgrade the kernel and whatnot, /proc/meminfo shows, on average, around 25 meg of memory to be "missing" than from what the unpatched kernel will display. What exactly is the cause of this, so I can get these angry people off my back?
-ms