Re: 1024 MB RAM viewed as 768

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:

Is it normal for a Linux distro to view 1024 MB RAM as 768 or it's my hardware

Do you have an onboard video chip? Then some of the memory (256 MB in your case) will be used as video memory and does not show up in the memory statisctics.

Sjoerd

umarz...@eden:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           749        741          8          0         11        226
-/+ buffers/cache:        502        246
Swap:         2196          0       2196

I'm using Lenny AMD64 on CQ40-115AU

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