Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Tim Igoe <tim@×××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:35:10
Message-Id: 42E4085C.2070008@igoe.me.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory by Rudmer van Dijk
1 Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
2 > On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote:
3 >
4 >>mark@laeb ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
5 >>MemTotal: 1034284 kB
6 >>MemFree: 953172 kB
7 >>
8 >>Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
9 >
10
11 Could it be shared ram taken for an on board graphics card?
12
13 I know the one in this box used to be anywhere from 4MB to 64MB iirc -
14 replaced it with a seperate board now.
15
16 >
17 > that's better than here:
18 >
19 > rudmer:~ # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
20 > MemTotal: 1026304 kB
21 > MemFree: 79152 kB
22 >
23 > that's almost 22MB...
24 > and that's what Richard already said probably a BIOS setting which you
25 > shouldn't try to disable to get a couple of MB's more.
26 >
27 > Rudmer
28
29 --
30 Tim Igoe
31 tim@×××××××.uk
32 http://tim.igoe.me.uk - Personal Site
33 http://tv.igoe.me.uk - UK TV Guide
34
35 "Computers are like Air-con, open windows and they stop working!"

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>