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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:09:52
Message-Id: 42E4026B.6030201@asmallpond.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory by Mark Shields
1 Mark Shields wrote:
2
3 >mark@laeb ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
4 >MemTotal: 1034284 kB
5 >MemFree: 953172 kB
6 >
7 >
8 >Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
9 >
10 >
11
12 I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends upon your BIOS
13 options. All of those "cache this or that ROM into memory" options eat
14 some some ram. You can disable those to try and get some more memory,
15 but your system performance will probably suffer overall.
16
17 -Richard
18
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