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

[Ashish Vijaywargiya]

Thanks Steve - much appreciated!

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Ashish

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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