>>> total memory = 2047 MB >>> avail memory = 1999 MB >> total memory = 256 MB >> avail memory = 239 MB > Some graphics chips, especially on lower-end machines, use main > memory, thus making it unavailable to the CPU.
It's not that simple. I've seen this for a very long time, including on machines with no graphics chips at all, such as 4.3 on a VAX 750. Here's a live example; this is quoted from /var/run/dmesg.boot on a SPARCstation LX that's my desktop at one of my workplaces: total memory = 48688 KB avail memory = 41676 KB That's with a cg6 with its own private framebuffer RAM. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
