/proc/meminfo

[Todd Millecam]

Not sure if this helps, but there are actually two different measures used
for computer storage sizes.  The first is the technical one, which is
abbreviated as kB, mB, and gB, where 1 mB = 1024 kB.
The second is actually what marketing uses, and what most components
advertise their "space" as, where they round everything down from 1024 to
1000, and those are abbreviated KB, MB, and GB.  This is why a 1.5TB hard
drive shows up on your computer as 1.44 tB.  Ram vendors sometimes do the
same thing.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> Looks like you have 4 gigs of ram with a video card that uses some of the
> system ram as it's video ram.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 03/18/2015 04:45 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking at a server and ran  cat /proc/meminfo  and got:
>>
>> MemTotal:        3781692 kB
>>
>> I was expecting 2GB or 4GB.
>>
>> According to
>> https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s2-
>> proc-meminfo.html
>> MemTotal is total RAM.  In their example they show:
>>
>> MemTotal:       255908 kB
>>
>> and say that is 256MB of RAM.
>>
>> 256MB = 262144KB.  Am I wrong?
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>>
>>
>>
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