[ncolug] Re: where did it go?

  • From: nor thern <zboson2003@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:05:43 -0700 (PDT)


Larry D <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
I am trying yet another video card in the monster. I am having some
success, but...

Memory on BIOS startup reports "4096MB OK" - when Ubuntu comes up and I do
a TOP, I see

top - 22:00:41 up 6 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.12, 0.06
Tasks:  88 total,   1 running,  87 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  4.7% us,  1.4% sy,  0.0% ni, 92.1% id,  1.7% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   3512344k total,   343260k used,  3169084k free,     5612k buffers
Swap:  2971984k total,        0k used,  2971984k free,   168944k cached

Where is my memory going?

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-server@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00048.html
 
 my guess is ubuntu server edition detects memory layout better on some boards.
 so a kernel from ubuntu server edition can see the other 512MB.

                
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