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color:#1F497D'>At command line type ‘free’. This will show where and how your
memory is allocated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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[mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jatin K<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 10, 2010 12:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Community support for Fedora users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: RAM shows less<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Monday 10 May 2010 10:11 PM, Michael Marx wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<pre>Hi,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>mayby think about this:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>$ bc -l<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>bc 1.06.95<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Foundation, Inc.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>For details type `warranty'.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>4000/(1.024*1.024*1.024)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>3725.29029846191406250000<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Are you shure to have 4294967296 Byte of Ram ?<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal>following is the output of <b><u>lshw</u></b> command (
according to it I do have 4GB RAM installed on the system (2gb + 2gb
module) <br>
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description: Portable Computer<br>
product: Inspiron 1564<br>
vendor: Dell Inc.<br>
version: A06<br>
serial: FGV5BS<br>
width: 64 bits<br>
capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6 vsyscall64 vsyscall32<br>
configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=normal
chassis=portable frontpanel_password=unknown keyboard_password=unknown
power-on_password=disabled uuid=44454C4C-5200-1034-8043-C7C04F354253<br>
*-core<br>
description: Motherboard<br>
product: 0THH9H<br>
vendor: Dell Inc.<br>
physical id: 0<br>
version: A06<br>
serial: .GR4C5BS.CN486430390202.<br>
*-firmware<br>
description: BIOS<br>
vendor: Dell Inc.<br>
physical id: 1<br>
version: A06
(02/26/2010)<br>
size: 117KiB<br>
capacity: 1984KiB<br>
capabilities: pci pnp
upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360
int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial
int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot smartbattery biosbootspecification
netboot<br>
*-cpu<br>
description: CPU<br>
product: Intel(R)
Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz<br>
vendor: Intel Corp.<br>
physical id: 5<br>
bus info: cpu@0<br>
version: CPU Version<br>
slot: U2E1<br>
size: 1199MHz<br>
capacity: 4096MHz<br>
width: 64 bits<br>
clock: 133MHz<br>
capabilities: fpu
fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp x86-64
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lahf_lm ida arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid cpufreq<br>
*-cache:0<br>
description: L1 cache<br>
physical id: 6<br>
slot:
L1 Cache<br>
size:
128KiB<br>
capacity: 128KiB<br>
capabilities: asynchronous internal write-through data<br>
*-cache:1<br>
description: L2 cache<br>
physical id: 7<br>
slot:
L2 Cache<br>
size:
512KiB<br>
capacity: 1MiB<br>
capabilities: burst internal write-through unified<br>
*-cache:2<br>
description: L3 cache<br>
physical id: 8<br>
slot:
L3 Cache<br>
size:
3MiB<br>
capacity: 8MiB<br>
capabilities: burst internal write-back<br>
*-memory<br>
description: System Memory<br>
physical id: 16<br>
slot: System board or
motherboard<br>
size: 4GiB<br>
<b> *-bank:0<br>
description: SODIMM Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns)<br>
product: HMT125S6TFR8C-G7<br>
vendor: 80AD<br>
physical
id: 0<br>
serial: 26B36A99<br>
slot:
DIMM_A<br>
size:
2GiB<br>
width:
64 bits<br>
clock:
1067MHz (0.9ns)<br>
*-bank:1<br>
description: SODIMM Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns)<br>
product:
HMT125S6TFR8C-G7<br>
vendor: 80AD<br>
physical id: 1<br>
serial: 26136A94<br>
slot:
DIMM_B<br>
size:
2GiB<br>
width:
64 bits<br>
clock:
1067MHz (0.9ns)<br>
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<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Best regards<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Michael<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>On 05/10/2010 03:19 PM, Jatin K wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>Dear All<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I've a new Dell Inspiton 1564 laptop with 1GB graphics card and 4GB DDR3<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>RAM, FC 12 64bit installed on it , but in system information tab it<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>shows 3.7GB usable RAM. My Question is "what about the remaining RAM ??"<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>is it shared with graphics card ? then what is the meaning of dedicated<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>RAM of my graphics card ( if graphics card shares my installed ram module )<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>any idea ??<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Regards<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote>
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<pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> °v° <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> /(_)\ <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> ^ ^ Jatin Khatri <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Registerd Linux user No #501175<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a
href="http://www.counter.li.org">www.counter.li.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>No M$<o:p></o:p></pre></div>
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