Hi, I appear to be missing quite a bit of RAM on an x86_64 system. I have 1GB installed, but 'free' only shows 878MB:
pokey$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 878 571 306 0 52 332 -/+ buffers/cache: 186 691 Swap: 1023 0 1023 I'm used to seeing a little bit of RAM missing with 32bit systems, but 146MB seems a bit much. The part of dmesg that concerns the RAM is shown below. Anyone know what's up here? Is this normal for an x86_64 system? Linux version 2.6.20.11 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2) #1 SMP Thu May 24 18:29:52 GMT 2007 Command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.20.11 rw root=801 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000037fd0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000037fd0000 - 0000000037fde000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000037fde000 - 0000000038000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 256 used Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 229328) 1 entries of 256 used end_pfn_map = 1048576 DMI 2.3 present. Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 256 used Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 229328) 1 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 DMA32 4096 -> 1048576 Normal 1048576 -> 1048576 early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 159 0: 256 -> 229328 On node 0 totalpages: 229231 DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 890 pages reserved DMA zone: 3053 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 3079 pages used for memmap DMA32 zone: 222153 pages, LIFO batch:31 Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 MPTABLE: OEM ID: nVidia MPTABLE: Product ID: MCP51G/M MPTABLE: APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU) I/O APIC #1 at 0xFEC00000. Setting APIC routing to flat Processors: 1 Nosave address range: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 Nosave address range: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000 Nosave address range: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 38000000:c6c00000) PERCPU: Allocating 25088 bytes of per cpu data Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 225206 Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.20.11 rw root=801 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ 61ba000000 size 32 MB Aperture too small (32 MB) No AGP bridge found Memory: 898964k/917312k available (2235k kernel code, 17744k reserved, 750k data, 200k init) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/