On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 04:14:53PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > Also, I get different reports of available memory. The BIOS reports > 4096 MB, of which it says 3455 MB are usable. The system uses 128 MB > of that for the video RAM. finnix-92.1 64 bit says it has 3335 > MB. finnix-92.1 32 bit reports 2906 MB, and Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit sees > 2896 MB. > > Memtest86+ tests in three chunks of memory: 144K to 2048 MB, 2048 MB > to 2943 MB, and 4096 MB to 4608 MB. The first two are contiguous, the > third is not. Ignoring the 144K, that adds up to the 3455 MB the BOIS > reports as usable. > > Questions: > > * Where is the rest of my 4 GB? I paid good money for those 641MB! > > * Why the gap between the memory chunks? Not that it matters, Linux > seems able to use them anyway.
This post seems to show a similar problem, the fix was a BIOS setting: http://madduck.net/blog/2009.11.18:ram-reclaimed-mystery-solved/ -- Byron Clark /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
