Mike Leone on 30 May 2011 09:11:07 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] The mystery of the missing megabytes


On 5/30/2011 12:00 PM, Adam Zion wrote:
> This 64 bit Ubuntu box only sees 3762 GB of RAM rather than 4096.
> That's total RAM, as per free -mt:
> 
> adam@calvin:~$ free -mt
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          3762       1807       1954          0         95       1023
> -/+ buffers/cache:        688       3073
> Swap:         1784          0       1784
> Total:        5546       1807       3739
> adam@calvin:~$
> 
> Are those missing 334 MB just invisible to Ubuntu? Are they being used by video?

I would think almost certainly used by the video. Does it have a
separate video card?
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