Re: Missing some RAM?

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

local10 <local10@tutanota.com> wrote:

> The "why 1G memory is missing?" thread got me thinking. My PC also
> seems to be missing hundreds MB of RAM and that's how it's been for
> years. I have 4*2GB RAM boards so, in theory, I should've had 8GB of
> RAM but top shows only 7472.2MiB. Even after the MiB to MB conversion
> there's still some RAM missing: 7472.2 MiB = 7835.169 MB.

> Any ideas? Any way to get it back? Thanks

The PCI memory area is probably to blame here. Also the kernel needs
some memory for itself.

Please reboot your system and then, as root do:

  dmesg | grep "e820"

and post the output. That will tell us the memory map of your system and
which regions are used or reserved.

S°

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.