Tim Callaghan wrote:
What am I missing?

free tells you what's available, not what's actually detected, for a variety of reasons. What you really want is the first line of /proc/meminfo.

  head -1 /proc/meminfo

That will tell you precisely how much real, physical memory the kernel detects.

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Rich P.
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