Re: [Hampshire] How to tell how much memory?

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] How to tell how much memory?

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Hi Victor,

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 19:34 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> OK ... but rather surprising. This box is running feisty 7.04, and
> uname -a gives
> 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 19:00:28 UTC 2007 x86-64 Gnu/Linux
>


> So not an 'old' kernel ... but maybe the default build uses the 'old'
> memory model.
>
> Maybe I should look over on Ubuntu Forums to see if there's any info
> on getting an install image configured for 1GB+ ... [1]
>


alan@mother:~$ grep 4G /boot/config-2.6.20-16-generic
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y

So it's not that.

> Video GPU is an onboard NVidia GeForce 6100 NForce 405 which Ububtu's
> NVidia X Server Settings says has 512 MB so I shouldn't imagine it's
> stealing my main memory as well..
>


Google nvidia 6100 shared memory and you might be surprised to learn
that it's highly likely to be that.

Cheers,
Al.