Added two piece of 2GB RAM but total showing 3279 in Ubuntu 8.04

[Steve]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:22:53 -0000, Ashish Vijaywargiya  
<vijaywargiya.ashish at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have added two piece of 2GB RAM in my mother board.
> When I am typing "free -mt" command on terminal then it is showing 3279.
>
> Here is output:
>
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          3279        618       2660          0         14        278
> -/+ buffers/cache:        325       2953
> Swap:         5898          0       5898
> Total:        9178        618       8559
>
> IMO the total of two RAM will be 4096.
> In BIOS settings it shows two RAM connected to two slots each having  
> size of
> 2048MB.
>
> Is the calculation in Ubuntu 8.04 done differently?
>
> Any comment on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Ashish
That’s about right for a 32 bit system the rest is set aside for BIOS,  
video and other devices. If you have a root round the web there are plenty  
of explanations.

-- 
Steve