Hi there, I recently bought a Dell XPS 13 and noticed that the amount of memory visible to the system is lower than I expected. This machine ships with a 4Gb module even though the system "sees" only 3,2Gb. I'm running Fedora 16 x86_64 so that should not be a 32-bit vs 64-bit problem. However, I heard that the integrated graphics chip might "steal" some system memory to use it as video memory, but I'm rapidly running out of ideas. Does anyone knows if there's a non dangerous way to reclaim some of this memory? Thanks in advance. --- System Details --- [root@aether ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 16 (Verne) [root@aether ~]# uname -m x86_64 [root@aether ~]# uname -a Linux aether.bitflow.co 3.4.9-2.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 17:51:29 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@aether ~]# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3354320 kB MemFree: 250140 kB Buffers: 77648 kB Cached: 1235060 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1719992 kB Inactive: 1096492 kB Active(anon): 1229236 kB Inactive(anon): 581948 kB Active(file): 490756 kB Inactive(file): 514544 kB Unevictable: 3664 kB Mlocked: 3664 kB SwapTotal: 4883756 kB SwapFree: 4883756 kB Dirty: 216 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1507520 kB Mapped: 164056 kB Shmem: 305120 kB Slab: 158236 kB SReclaimable: 108232 kB SUnreclaim: 50004 kB KernelStack: 3776 kB PageTables: 49200 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 6560916 kB Committed_AS: 4319864 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 376080 kB VmallocChunk: 34359331740 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 495616 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 72684 kB DirectMap2M: 3416064 kB [root@aether ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2467M CPU @ 1.60GHz stepping : 7 microcode : 0x28 cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 3192.88 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: [remaining part omitted] -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
