real memory 4 GB ./. available memory 2 GB

[andrew clarke]

On Fri 2015-05-15 09:31:13 UTC+0200, Matthias Apitz (guru at unixarea.de) wrote:

> I run a 11-CURRENT amd64 on an Acer C720. What could cause the diff
> between real and available mem:
> 
> May 14 23:11:16 freeyaz kernel: real memory  = 4301258752 (4102 MB)
> May 14 23:11:16 freeyaz kernel: avail memory = 1927536640 (1838 MB)

Some possibilities:

- The video subsystem is using a bucketload of memory (check your BIOS settings)

- the BIOS firmware needs upgrading

- bad memory?