RAM shows less

[Jatin K]

On Monday 10 May 2010 08:26 PM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> Hi
>
> Type top in the command line.
>
> What does that show for memory??
>
> Marvin
>
>
>
> On 5/10/10, Jatin K<ssh.fedora at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Dear All
>>
>> I've a new Dell Inspiton 1564 laptop with 1GB graphics card and 4GB DDR3
>> RAM, FC 12 64bit installed on it , but in system information tab it
>> shows 3.7GB usable RAM. My Question is "what about the remaining RAM ??"
>> is it shared with graphics card ? then what is the meaning of dedicated
>> RAM of my graphics card ( if graphics card shares my installed ram module )
>>
>> any idea ??
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
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Thanx Marvin

following is the output on top command ... ??  how it can help

--------------------------------------------------
top - 21:13:06 up 10 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.43, 0.35, 0.21
Tasks: 190 total,   1 running, 189 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.6%us,  0.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:   3917912k total,   915940k used,  3001972k free,    39060k buffers
Swap:  4805624k total,        0k used,  4805624k free,   293484k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  1094 root      20   0  242m  94m  33m S    2  2.5   0:22.10 Xorg
  1761 livewire  20   0  121m  29m 4692 S    1  0.8   0:01.85 
ubuntuone-syncd
     4 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 ksoftirqd/0
  1564 livewire  20   0  246m  20m  11m S    0  0.5   0:00.97 gnome-panel
  1781 livewire  20   0  420m  60m  27m S    0  1.6   0:01.47 firefox-bin
  2014 livewire  20   0 19216 1460 1056 R    0  0.0   0:00.05 top
     1 root      20   0 23704 1964 1292 S    0  0.1   0:00.82 init
     2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
     3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
     5 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
     6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1
     7 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.05 ksoftirqd/1
     8 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
     9 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/2
    10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.34 ksoftirqd/2
    11 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/2
    12 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/3


-- 
   °v°
  /(_)\
   ^ ^  Jatin Khatri
Registerd Linux user No #501175
www.counter.li.org
No M$