Thank you everyone who responded. Round up since it does not list kernel memory. On 2015-03-19 13:08, Brian Cluff wrote: > I've never heard of RAM vendors using Mebibytes instead of Megabytes. > It doesn't really make any sense. Vendors use Mebibytes to make they > storage sound like it's just a little bit bigger than the competition > and ram sizes are still small enough that it would sound weird if > someone were to advertise a laptop with weird decimal sizes on the > ram. > > Brian Cluff > > On 03/19/2015 03:04 AM, Todd Millecam wrote: >> 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 > > 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!! >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------__--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Todd Millecam >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss