I recently bought a 512MB stick of PC2700 Crucial RAM. But I only seem to have about 450-some MB of memory: when I run 'free' I get total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 451716 295120 156596 0 86396 107672 -/+ buffers/cache: 101052 350664 Swap: 1004020 0 1004020 A similar number shows up when I boot the machine. That's something like 441 MB. So, I'm missing almost 71MB of RAM. Is some of this being used for video memory, or do I have a bad chip? I've run memtest on it, and it checks out (...and reports the smaller-than-512 number). Thoughts? Dan -- Ceci n'est pas une .signature. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050721/40b3eda7/attachment.pgp