[Wftl-lug] question on memory -- Total Memory vs Physical Memory

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Friday 17 August 2007 22:17:57 Marcelino Mata wrote:
> What distro and kernel are you running?...Seems to me your having kernel
> issue...I have seen some pre-compiled to only recognize 1 or 2GB RAM.   You
> can recompile your own with larger memory settings or pick "large memory"
> kernel from your distro's pool/respository.  Can't remember setting off the
> top of my head since I don't recompile kernels very often....you can tell
> I'm not gentoo user :-)
>
> Marcelino
>
> On 8/17/07, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> > I think I asked this question to the list earlier in regards to 4 gigs of
> > memory.  So I have it installed and am wondering about what I am seeing
> > when
> > I look at KInfoCenter and see that I have 2.02 GB free of Total Memory
> > and 51.19 MB free of Physical Memory.
> >
> > Total physical memory shows 1.98 GB does that mean that my system is only
> > reconginizing 2 Gigs of RAM?  When I look at the BIOS it shows 4 GIG of
> > RAM...
> >
> > THoughts?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JOnathan
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Thasnks Marcelino,

I am using Kubuntu 7.04 (the Feisty Fawn)
uname -r shows 2.6.20-16-generic

I'm attaching what Kinfocenter shows

JOnathan
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