memory reported less than installed

[Peter Goggin]

When you buy 1Gbyte of memory you get 1000 Megabytes. Some programs
define a GByte of memory as 1024Mbytes. Thus these programs would show a
shortfall of about 2%, i.e. 2 Gbytes (2000Mbytes) would show as 1.96
Gbytes or thereabouts.

Regards


Peter Goggin


-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Bill Walton
Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 3:20 AM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: memory reported less than installed

Hi Peter,

Peter Goggin wrote:


> Remember that the amount of memory shown depends
> on the definition of Gbyte used.

Could you say more about what you mean?  I wasn't aware definitions
differed.

Thanks,
Bill


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