memory reported less than installed

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 13:01 -0400, Rashkae wrote:
> Bill Walton wrote:
> > Greetings!
> > 
> > I just added an additional 8GB to the 2GB I previously had installed, but the System Monitor's only reporting 9.7GB.  Is there something wrong or is this expected?  The system's a Dell Precision 670 with dual 3.2 Xeons running 8.04 (hardy).
> > 
> > TIA
> > Bill
> > 
> 
> On board video?  System monitor won't find the memory being dedicated to
> video.

The tools do not report memory used by the kernel image. The underlying
information is derived from /proc/meminfo. Here is a page I found which
explains meminfo:

http://www.redhat.com/advice/tips/meminfo.html

It is from Red hat, but since the kernels are the same as Ubuntu, it is
likely accurate.
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