Thanks Ed, that seems to fit. The number does indeed change depending on what graphics card is in there... and with two array controllers, a USB2 card, and a sound card, I guess it is not a stretch to believe that this is caused by PCI I/O. -- "Life is too short, to spend it waiting for slow hardware to do something..." -Dev On Mon, July 24, 2006 4:22 am, nor thern wrote: > > > 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.gatago.com/linux/kernel/14678117.html > > found an excellent thread that mentions bios upgrade , memory hole, > boot log , etc. > > > > --------------------------------- > See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. To unsubscribe send to ncolug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.