3Gb ram being reported as 1.9Gb

[Nishith Nand]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Nishith Nand <mr.n.nand at gmail.com> wrote:

> It shows up correctly in windows vista.
>
> Could it have anything to do with virtual box? I assigned 1GB RAM for that
> and that's about the same as the amount missing. It might, also, just be a
> coincidence as I had recently added 2GBs and had not checked before
> installing virtualbox. I have uninstalled it as of now and also removed its
> kernel modules.
>
> I will check my BIOS settings for apertures and memory holes.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Chris Cheney <ccheney at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 17:26 +0530, Nishith Nand wrote:
>> > 256MB, its a nVidia 8600GT.
>>
>> If you have 3GB RAM and only a 256MB video card then it should be
>> showing more than 1.9GB RAM free. You should probably update your
>> motherboard BIOS if you haven't already. If you still have problems with
>> it showing only 1.9GB RAM after that you might want to file a kernel bug
>> report.
>>
>> Do you see the full 3GB RAM on any other OS, or have you only tried
>> Ubuntu?
>>
>> Chris
>>
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>
I just enabled "memory hole" in my BIOS and now I can see 2.4GB memory.
Here's the new meminfo

MemTotal:        2498472 kB
MemFree:         1888244 kB
Buffers:           56100 kB
Cached:           253608 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           352924 kB
Inactive:         207284 kB
Active(anon):     256764 kB
Inactive(anon):        0 kB
Active(file):      96160 kB
Inactive(file):   207284 kB
Unevictable:          48 kB
Mlocked:              48 kB
HighTotal:       1634056 kB
HighFree:        1118252 kB
LowTotal:         864416 kB
LowFree:          769992 kB
SwapTotal:        779144 kB
SwapFree:         779144 kB
Dirty:               952 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        250552 kB
Mapped:            92132 kB
Slab:              17792 kB
SReclaimable:      10588 kB
SUnreclaim:         7204 kB
PageTables:         2480 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     2028380 kB
Committed_AS:     744304 kB
VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
VmallocUsed:       53328 kB
VmallocChunk:      57844 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
DirectMap4k:       32760 kB
DirectMap4M:      872448 kB
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