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cirnOS

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Registered: 2010-03-01

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6gb ram - Htop shows 5966mb?

Hello. I recently just started usign arch linux and dwm. in my desktop I have a intel i7 920 and 6gb ddr 1333mhz ram. If I'm not mistaken 6gb should be 6144mb? Why is htop showing my 5966mb ram?

Here:
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8068/screencj.png

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: 6gb ram - Htop shows 5966mb?

Because that is showing the memory available to userspace applications. The rest is reserved for the kernel

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cirnOS

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Registered: 2010-03-01

Posts: 107

Re: 6gb ram - Htop shows 5966mb?

O.K. that makes sense, is there a source about this?

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: 6gb ram - Htop shows 5966mb?

Can't find any source but you should be able to see your total RAM size by doing this.
cat /proc/meminfo

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cirnOS

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Re: 6gb ram - Htop shows 5966mb?

Thanks sand_man

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Re: 6gb ram - Htop shows 5966mb?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50161

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