[Gllug] find how much RAM is available.

[John Edwards]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:32:13PM +0100, Pooly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a bit confused, I've unscrew my laptop to check if I can add some
> RAM, and on the one I have, it's written, 256Mo,DDR,333,CL2.5. But
> dmesg gives me :
> Memory: 186036k/195520k available (1632k kernel code, 8856k reserved, 696k data,
>  180k init, 0k highmem)
> So, 256 gainst 196Mo... Which one should I believe ?
> Should I go in the bios, tweaking it ? or add a param to Grub when I boot ?
> Last, where is the best place to buy RAM in London ?
> thank you,
> --
> Pooly
> Webzine Rock : http://www.w-fenec.org/

Some low end graphics cards that are integrated onto the motherboard 
use some of the system RAM as a cheaper but slower to having their own 
dedicated video RAM. Could this be the case here ?

On a modern kernel and hardware, it's very rare to have to manually 
set the amount of RAM through a kernel boot parameter.

As for the best place to buy RAM for a laptop, I usually find that 
few retail stores can stock all the different variations of SODIMMs 
and so tend to use mail order.

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