On 4/26/21 8:56 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
My new PC has two 8GB sticks so total 16GB RAM
but cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 14230648 kB
Shouldn't it show 15GB+ ?
The kernel takes up some RAM, although I wouldn't expect 2GB worth. You
can check that with `dmesg | grep Memory:`.
The other possibility is that your RAM manufacturer used "gigabyte" to
mean 10^9 instead of 2^30, meaning that you actually have fewer than
16GiB. Hard disk manufacturers have been pulling this trick for years;
I'm not sure if it's common for RAM.
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