memory reported less than installed

David C. Uhrig david at twintop-tahoe.com
Mon Aug 11 22:16:33 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
>> If anybody's got 4GB or more installed, it would be nice to hear what you see.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have got 4GB.
> System monitor reports only 3.2GB (using 32 bit kernel
> to stay out of 64 bit hell on the desktop), but I experimented (only
> experimented, as it turned out not viable for desktop use sadly) with
> the 32 bit "server" kernel, and using this one, the system monitor
> happily reports 4.0GB, spot on ! :-)
>
> HTH...
>
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Hi all,

I have a similar problem on my laptop -- Dell m1210 running the 64-bit
version of 8.04. It has 4GB of RAM (2x2GB sticks) but only shows
3.2GB. This is, well, quite odd.

-David C. Uhrig




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