[KLUG Members] Ram misreporting in Debian

[Darrel Ray Clute, III]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:39, Adam Williams wrote:
> > 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.

Are you using a kernel with HIGHMEM support turned on?  On a 32-bit OS
it will only report the first ~900MB of memory without HIGHMEM on.
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