[clue-tech] Memory

[Angelo Bertolli]

Michael Mosbauer wrote:

> I'm still fairly new to Linux.  I have two systems setup.  Both with 
> AMD processors and 512MB of memory.  One is loaded with Kubuntu 10 and 
> the other with Suse 9.3 Prof.  Both of the system bios reads all the 
> memory at bootup.  Once my system is up I notice that linux is only 
> reporting 128MB of memory.  Why is this?  Everywhere else I check 
> states that Linux should be able to read up to 1Gig directly from the 
> bios.  Does anyone have any ideas?

reporting how?  Try using the "free" command

$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           501        482         19          0          4        152
-/+ buffers/cache:        324        177
Swap:         1027         73        954

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