Re: 'free -m' under x86_64

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'free -m' under x86_64
\ Stefan G. Weichinger (16 Nov 2007)
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. . . . . \ Stefan G. Weichinger (20 Nov 2007)

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Subject:	Re: 'free -m' under x86_64
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Stefan G. Weichinger
Date:	20 Nov 2007

Bryan Whitehead schrieb:
> Looks fine. Looks like you see nearly all of the 4GB of ram (3982104).
> You probably have a lot of memory reserved in BIOS shadows or other
> hardware (like video card). This looks perfectly normal.

Yes ...

> If you have an onboard video card, a chunk of your memory is probably
> being used for that. In the BIOS you can usually set how much memory
> should be reserved for your video card. On board sound card can do the
> same.

There is no onboard video card, maybe the soundcard uses something, yes.
But I have loads of RAM free so I don't really care right now ;)

Thanks for the info, Stefan
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