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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> * Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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>> $free -m |
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>> total used free shared buffers cached |
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>> Mem: 5925 3334 2590 0 319 1571 |
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>> -/+ buffers/cache: 1443 4481 |
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>> Swap: 20479 0 20479 |
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> Apropos total memory: on my box w/ 4GB, it only shows up 3GB. |
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> On bootup, kernel (built w/ CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y) says: |
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> 2119MB HIGHMEM available. |
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> 887MB LOWMEM available. |
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> Who's eating up a whole GB ? BIOS ? GPU ? |
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It sounds suspiciously like video memory to me. |
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GART could be involved. How much DRAM on your video card? |
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- Mark |
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