Hi Kannan... The answer is quite obvoius. You have answered it in your mail itself... 'shared memory'. The graphics adapter in the Athlon m/c has reserved some amt of memory for itself and the rest is available for the system to use. The same is the case with the p2. cheerio vivek
m kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi iam using PCQ 2004(fedora core 2) in my two machines one is an athlon xp with 256MB ram and the other is a p2 350 with 128 MB ram . i did the same multy media installation option in both the systems . when checking the system resource monitor it shows the p2 is utilising 113mb ram and and athlon 220 mb ram why its so ? and the X is taking 77mb on p2 and 40 mb on the athlon am giving the config below athlon xp 2000 asus a7n vm (nvidia nforce 1 graphics - using default nv driver 32mb shaired) 256mb ram samsung 80 gb 5400 rpm hdd p2 350 128 mb ram i810 mobo 4mb shaired Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
