memory

[Jeremy Faulkner]

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Paul Diaguila wrote:
| Greetings
|
| I've added a gig of memory to a 5.1 system.  When booting, it shows 1024
| meg.  Looking in the dmesg log, it says:
| real memory  = 268414976 (255 MB)
| avail memory = 251363328 (239 MB)
|
| I would expect to see real memeory at 1024 also....  What don't I
| understand????
|
| thanks...
|
| Paul

If you are reading the dmesg via dmesg|more, page down. A lot. It is not
uncommon to have multiple boot records in dmesg's output.

What does sysctl hw.physmem return?

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Jeremy Faulkner				http://www.gldis.ca
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