RAM shows less

[Jatin K]

On Monday 10 May 2010 10:11 PM, Michael Marx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> mayby think about this:
>
> $ bc -l
> bc 1.06.95
> Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software
> Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details type `warranty'.
> 4000/(1.024*1.024*1.024)
> 3725.29029846191406250000
>
>
>
> Are you shure to have 4294967296 Byte of Ram ?
>    
following is the output of _*lshw*_ command ( according to it I do have 
4GB RAM installed on the system (2gb + 2gb module)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  description: Portable Computer
     product: Inspiron 1564
     vendor: Dell Inc.
     version: A06
     serial: FGV5BS
     width: 64 bits
     capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6 vsyscall64 vsyscall32
     configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=normal 
chassis=portable frontpanel_password=unknown keyboard_password=unknown 
power-on_password=disabled uuid=44454C4C-5200-1034-8043-C7C04F354253
   *-core
        description: Motherboard
        product: 0THH9H
        vendor: Dell Inc.
        physical id: 0
        version: A06
        serial: .GR4C5BS.CN486430390202.
      *-firmware
           description: BIOS
           vendor: Dell Inc.
           physical id: 1
           version: A06 (02/26/2010)
           size: 117KiB
           capacity: 1984KiB
           capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot 
bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 
int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi 
usb ls120boot smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot
      *-cpu
           description: CPU
           product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 430  @ 2.27GHz
           vendor: Intel Corp.
           physical id: 5
           bus info: cpu at 0
           version: CPU Version
           slot: U2E1
           size: 1199MHz
           capacity: 4096MHz
           width: 64 bits
           clock: 133MHz
           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 constant_tsc arch_perfmon 
pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor 
ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm ida 
arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid cpufreq
         *-cache:0
              description: L1 cache
              physical id: 6
              slot: L1 Cache
              size: 128KiB
              capacity: 128KiB
              capabilities: asynchronous internal write-through data
         *-cache:1
              description: L2 cache
              physical id: 7
              slot: L2 Cache
              size: 512KiB
              capacity: 1MiB
              capabilities: burst internal write-through unified
         *-cache:2
              description: L3 cache
              physical id: 8
              slot: L3 Cache
              size: 3MiB
              capacity: 8MiB
              capabilities: burst internal write-back
      *-memory
           description: System Memory
           physical id: 16
           slot: System board or motherboard
           size: 4GiB
* *-bank:0
              description: SODIMM Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns)
              product: HMT125S6TFR8C-G7
              vendor: 80AD
              physical id: 0
              serial: 26B36A99
              slot: DIMM_A
              size: 2GiB
              width: 64 bits
              clock: 1067MHz (0.9ns)
         *-bank:1
              description: SODIMM Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns)
              product: HMT125S6TFR8C-G7
              vendor: 80AD
              physical id: 1
              serial: 26136A94
              slot: DIMM_B
              size: 2GiB
              width: 64 bits
              clock: 1067MHz (0.9ns)
*
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> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 05/10/2010 03:19 PM, Jatin K 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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