Scott Walde wrote:
>> 4GB of RAM is 4194304 kB. The difference here is 44688 kB. In this
>> difference, there will be your video card and other IO bits. /proc/mtrr
>> and /proc/iomem should tell you more about what is taking up the address
>> space.
>
> Fair enough. Thanks. Although, I'd consider a loss of 1% of my RAM
> pretty minor if all other things were equal. FWIW, I had to compile the
> kernel to support 64GB of ram to get the almost 4GB. If I compiled the
> kernel with 4GB support, I only got 3GB. Debian users watch out... the
> stock debian kernel (at least in 3.1) is only compiled for 1GB RAM and
> you only get about 900MB to use.
On Ubuntu's stock kernel and my hardware, the difference was 3.4gb vs.
4.0 gb (largely due to 256mb PCI-E video card, etc, etc).
Received on Thu Dec 13 22:37:18 2007
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