Bug 74830

Summary:	RAM size reported incorectly in guname
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	adam bowns <adam.bowns>
Component:	gnome-utils	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	srevivo
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Description adam bowns 2002-10-01 23:16:50 UTC

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Description of problem:
In the memory information tab of guname the total memory size is reported
incorrectly. It reports 904324k when it should report 1048576k (1GB). I dont
believe there to be any bios problem causing this because windows XP reports the
system memory to be 1gb as it should.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot computer into gnome
2.open guname (system information)
3.click detailed information
4.open memory information tab

Actual Results:  the reported value for total memory is 904324k 	

Expected Results:  the reported value for total memory is 1048576k (1GB)

Additional info:

the bug has occured when using both your default shipping kernel, your updated
kernel and my own 2.4.19 custom kernel, so I don't think its a kernel problem
either, but I'll let you be the judge of that.

More hardware info if u require it: -
motherboard: asus a7v333
chipset: VIA KT333
ram: 2 x 512 mb samsung pc2700 ddr (not overclocked)

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-11-05 18:22:37 UTC

What RAM do you have if you look at the file /proc/meminfo?

I think this may just be that guname reports memory available to userspace 
(subtracts memory used by the kernel), or something like that. 
If guname shows the same as /proc/meminfo I think it's not a bug, just 
the way linux reports available ram.