3GiB ram, gnome-system-monitor now says 2.9GiB

[Matthew Flaschen]

J. Limon wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Previous to using the Jaunty beta, I had been using whatever the latest 
> version of Linux Mint is (6.x I think?) and their version of 
> gnome-system-monitor had always correctly displayed my RAM as being 
> 3.0GiB but ever since switching to Ubuntu, it is now 2.9GiB.
> 
> While I fully acknowledge that this is superficial and absolutely 
> frivolous - I'm just curious as to why this could be, maybe a new patch 
> to gnome-system-monitor which handles the rounding up and down of these 
> numbers?

I doubt it's a rounding issue.  One possibility is you have different
drivers, and an Ubuntu one is reserving some memory.

Matt Flaschen