Thanks Steve - much appreciated! -- Ashish <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Steve <<a href="mailto:yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com">yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:22:53 -0000, Ashish Vijaywargiya <<a href="mailto:vijaywargiya.ashish@gmail.com">vijaywargiya.ashish@gmail.com</a>> 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 </div></div>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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>