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From: Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:06:05
Message-Id: 5cd1cd690711191300u74de6126vdcfa62fced94358c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64 by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Looks fine. Looks like you see nearly all of the 4GB of ram (3982104).
2 You probably have a lot of memory reserved in BIOS shadows or other
3 hardware (like video card). This looks perfectly normal.
4
5 If you have an onboard video card, a chunk of your memory is probably
6 being used for that. In the BIOS you can usually set how much memory
7 should be reserved for your video card. On board sound card can do the
8 same.
9
10 On Nov 19, 2007 2:06 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
11 > Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
12 > > Bryan Whitehead schrieb:
13 > >> Can you just run "uname -a" and cut/paste that to an email and send to
14 > >> us? I think you are still in 32bit land.
15 > >
16 > > # uname -a
17 > > Linux hiro 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 17 02:42:03 CET 2007
18 > > x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
19 >
20 > And additionally:
21 >
22 > # free
23 > total used free shared buffers cached
24 > Mem: 3982104 1044660 2937444 0 21200 548428
25 > -/+ buffers/cache: 475032 3507072
26 > Swap: 1052216 0 1052216
27 >
28 > Looks OK to me already.
29 >
30 >
31 > Stefan
32 > --
33 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
34 >
35 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64 "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>