[olug] Memory recognized (in)correctly?

[Brandon Lederer]

you need Hi Mem support in your kernel.  I've had the same problem.

On Thursday 23 June 2005 10:46 pm, Eric P wrote:
> I have 2 512MB sticks in my system.
>
> On boot, BIOS tells me I have 1,047,552k.  It's off a few 'k', but I
> figure there's probably a reason.
>
> But when I run 'free', it's way off only showing 906736k.
>
> $ free
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        906736     509760     396976          0      38280     246016
> -/+ buffers/cache:     225464     681272
> Swap:      1052216          0    1052216
>
>
> Am I reading free's output wrong?  Or is there a problem w/one of my
> memory sticks?
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Eric P
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