memory reported less than installed

[Leo Cacciari]

Il giorno lun, 11/08/2008 alle 16.16 -0400, Rashkae ha scritto:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Also note that System Monitor 2.20.1 (Gutsy) uses MB whereas System
> > Monitor 2.22.3 (Hardy) uses MiB.
> > Ubuntu's changelog doesn't show details:
> > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor
> > but Debian's does:
> > <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnome-system-monitor/gnome-system-monitor_2.22.3-1/changelog>
> > 
> 
> I'm on a Gutsy 64-bit system with 3GB of memory.
> 
> Free:
> 
> Mem:       3097740    3068932      28808          0     254064    1468900
> -/+ buffers/cache:    1345968    1751772
> Swap:      3903712          0    3903712
> 
> System Monitor, System tab, Hardware: 3.0 GB

> So far, everything as I expect it.
> 
> In short, if a system has 10GB of memeory installed, I would expect any
> memory monitor to show at least 10GB, or more, not less.
> 
> 
> 
> 
I'm not aware of recent developments in the kernel, but AFAIK with a
32bit system, you can not address more than 4GB... I think you need a
64bit system to access more than that...


Enjoy

-- 
Leo Cacciari


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