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11-10-2006, 07:48 AM #1WHT Addict
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How much memory is this?
just curiouse... how much memory is this:
971644k shouldn't this be 1GB?
thanks
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11-10-2006, 07:53 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Its most likely 1GB but some might be used for onboard graphics or just the way Linux has sliced it up
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11-10-2006, 12:38 PM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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Originally Posted by reamark
I say "might be" rather than "definitely is" a little high, as this is likely to be very dependent on your kernel configuration. I would expect it to be higher if you had a large monolithic kernel rather than a modularly compiled one, for instance.
Also, some systems claim some main-board RAM for the graphics chip-set instead of it having RAM of it's own. It is not unlikely that your graphics controll has been given 64MB of main-board RAM and the remaining 11Mb is what the Kernel has statically claimed.
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11-10-2006, 12:48 PM #4WHT Addict
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just not understand... my friend setup a server with 1gb and in SSH it shows:
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total 8.9% 2.8% 3.7% 0.4% 1.8% 82.1% 0.0%
Mem: 971644k av, 942352k used, 29292k free, 0k shrd, 61640k buff
614548k active, 265780k inactive
Swap: 1959920k av, 0k used, 1959920k free 548700k cache
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whyle i have a server with 1gb and it shows:
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Mem: 1048576k av, 361240k used, 687336k free, 0k shrd, 0k buff
0k active, 0k inactive
Swap: 0k av, 0k used, 0k free 0k cached
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think there is somehting wrong...
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11-10-2006, 04:43 PM #5Disabled
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usually it is less than what is in your system. THis could be reserved memory for system, etc.. but yeah 1024MB = 1GIG
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11-10-2006, 04:57 PM #6WHT Addict
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Originally Posted by reamark
1033284 / 1024 = 1009MB
Other 25MB probably Kernal related...
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