Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit.
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:10:46
Message-Id: 4d26328f.815bdf0a.24c1.fffff81b@mx.google.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit. by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Thursday 06 January 2011 21:29:20 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > * Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
3 > > $free -m
4 > >
5 > > total used free shared
6 > > buffers cached
7 > >
8 > > Mem: 5925 3334 2590 0 319
9 > > 1571
10 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 1443 4481
11 > > Swap: 20479 0 20479
12 >
13 > Apropos total memory: on my box w/ 4GB, it only shows up 3GB.
14 > On bootup, kernel (built w/ CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y) says:
15 >
16 > 2119MB HIGHMEM available.
17 > 887MB LOWMEM available.
18 >
19 > Who's eating up a whole GB ? BIOS ? GPU ?
20
21 bios

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit. Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>