Thread: UBUNTU 8.10 x64 sees only 1.5 GB istead of 2 GB memory
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Old 18th March 2009, 13:24
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The "less" memory showing is because of Xen. Xen takes a chunk of memory and hides it from the system(own use). On my box with 4G of ram and no VM's started, free -m shows a total of 3770Megs.
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