Re: 1024 MB RAM viewed as 768

2009-01-22 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/1/22 Adrian Chapela > Umarzuki Mochlis escribió: > >> Is it normal for a Linux distro to view 1024 MB RAM as 768 or it's my >> hardware >> > It is not normal, maybe a part of your RAM is used by the graphics card. > ah..I totally forgot about that since it's been for years i'm using PCI-e a

Re: 1024 MB RAM viewed as 768

2009-01-22 Thread Adrian Chapela
Umarzuki Mochlis escribió: Is it normal for a Linux distro to view 1024 MB RAM as 768 or it's my hardware It is not normal, maybe a part of your RAM is used by the graphics card. umarz...@eden:~$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 7

Re: 1024 MB RAM viewed as 768

2009-01-22 Thread 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 -

1024 MB RAM viewed as 768

2009-01-22 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Is it normal for a Linux distro to view 1024 MB RAM as 768 or it's my hardware umarz...@eden:~$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 749741 8 0 11226 -/+ buffers/cache:502246 Swap: