memory reported less than installed
David Fox
dfox94085 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 17:41:27 UTC 2008
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Bill Walton <bill.walton at charter.net> wrote:
> I don't think so. The system's got an NVIDIA card and I've got the driver
> enabled. I'll try disabling the driver and see if that makes a difference.
Well I have 2 gig of ram, so scale as appropriate:
dfox at newbox:~/Desktop$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1932840 1917000 15840 0 1128 1013876
-/+ buffers/cache: 901996 1030844
Swap: 1951888 1928 1949960
The Total Mem (1932840) should be accurate, minus some for the nvidia
driver as I have an onboard 6100 nvidia card on a motherboard chipset.
But I believe that some of the "missing' RAM is reserved by the
kernel, so it would be logical to assume what you see is 10 gigs of
ram +/-fudge factor for gigabits*1024 vs. gigabits*1000, minus
whatever ram is taken up by the kernel. System Monitor would simply
report the same total memory value as "free" does.
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