[KLUG Members] Ram misreporting in Debian

[Adam Williams]

> I am running Debian testing from the beta 4 installer with the 2.6.3 
> kernel from that disk. The system bios reports 1028mb of ram, but the 
> /proc/meminfo is only reporting 905mb. Anyone know why the different 
> should be more than 100mb?

1028 - 905 = 123Mb.  Are you sure you don't have some fancy video card 
that is mapping itself into main memory?  Lots of AGP hardware does this.