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From: Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:49:57
Message-Id: 642958cc0507241643d4dcb2e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory by Daniel Drake
1 Ah, I wasn't aware, but that's a perfectly plausible explanation.
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3 On 7/24/05, Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote:
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > Mark Shields wrote:
7 > > mark@laeb ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
8 > > MemTotal: 1034284 kB
9 > > MemFree: 953172 kB
10 > >
11 > >
12 > > Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
13 >
14 > That sounds perfectly normal. The kernel usually secures 10-20mb RAM for
15 > itself, which isn't available to the rest of the system.
16 >
17 > Daniel
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