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Dashboard Reporting Incorrect Ram

This may be a stupid question but can someone tell me why astaro reports 9mb less ram on the dashboard than is installed...

512 mb ram
16 shared to video
487 reported

I tried it in a vm setting it to 512 ram and it reported it as 503...

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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago

The "missing memory" is used for your shared memory video card.... It's common to see memory reported in this way on most appliances, etc. as they don't use separate video memory. I do often go in the BIOS on such machines and reduce the shared video memory to minimum size, who needs 1000's of colors when it's just used to drive a console connection?

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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago

The "missing memory" is used for your shared memory video card.... It's common to see memory reported in this way on most appliances, etc. as they don't use separate video memory. I do often go in the BIOS on such machines and reduce the shared video memory to minimum size, who needs 1000's of colors when it's just used to drive a console connection?

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0 Reliun over 18 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

Sorry you misunderstood me... I have the Bios Set to share only 16 mb ram and its showing 25 mb less which is 9mb less than its suppose to be I also tried astaro on my highend machine in a virtual machine set to 512mb ram and it showed 503 ram...

Or am I misunderstanding you and your saying astaro somehow automatically shares an extra 9mb off the ram no matter what I do?

Just re-read your post "appliances" didnt register with me... so I guess astaro does share an extra 9mb it was just driving me nuts because I cant find anything about it anywhere.
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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago in reply to Reliun

It may not be reporting some of the RAM linux uses for caching... I wouldn't be concerned about it.

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0 BarryG over 18 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

That could be the Linux kernel RAM, which sometimes isn't counted in the total RAM.

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0 Reliun over 18 years ago in reply to BarryG

Thanks for the insight guys... was more curious than concerned [:D]
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0 gkemter over 18 years ago in reply to Reliun

Funny

ASG120 7.x with 512M -> 487MB
ASG220 7.x with 512M -> 503MB
VM 7.x with 512M -> 503MB
looks like a Bug in Bios of ASG110/120.

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0 BarryG over 18 years ago in reply to gkemter

Does the video card in the 110 use shared memory?

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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago in reply to BarryG

It uses onboard Video, and yes, it is shared memory.

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0 BarryG over 18 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

Let me guess, 16M?

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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago in reply to BarryG

That's correct... I'm not sure, but I think one can reduce that a bit in the BIOS... been a while since I looked at one of those, as we are mostly selling 220 / 320 / 425a units these days.

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0 kcng over 18 years ago in reply to BarryG

16m video mem on a 120 ?

damn, thats way more then enough aint it ?
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