ram in solo2

[chrcoluk]

according to this page should be 1 gig ram. http://vuplus.com/productSolo2.html

but the box reports only 570meg ram.

is some of the ram allocated to something else? or is there a possible issue with this?

I have used the following 2 methods to try and check ram amount.

telnet and running free which shows this


root@vusolo2:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 571948 169304 402644 0 1252 45560
-/+ buffers/cache: 122492 449456
Swap: 0 0 0

and on the open webif page



Box
Brand: Vu Plus
Model: solo2
Chipset: 7356
Frontprocessor Version: 0
Total Memory: 571948 kB
Free Memory: 449676 kB
Box Uptime:

[d_ino]

I have the same with my new Solo 2 - same amount of RAM

Anyone else seen this?

[marty]

Its normal, some ram is reserved by the system.

[marty]

Try this telnet command :)

cat /proc/meminfo

[chrcoluk]

its


root@vusolo2:/var/volatile/log# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 571948 kB
MemFree: 405372 kB

however I did find in the messages log its a false alarm so no panic guys :)

extract from log


Jan 1 01:00:16 vusolo2 user.info kernel: Memory: 571760k/1048576k available (5
364k kernel code, 476816k reserved, 1256k data, 188k init, 0k highmem)

and



Jan 1 01:00:16 vusolo2 user.debug kernel: bmem: adding 57 MB LINUX region at 6
MB (0x0393a000@0x006c6000)
Jan 1 01:00:16 vusolo2 user.info kernel: bmem: adding 192 MB RESERVED region a
t 64 MB (0x0c000000@0x04000000)
Jan 1 01:00:16 vusolo2 user.info kernel: bmem: adding 256 MB RESERVED region a
t 512 MB (0x10000000@0x20000000)
Jan 1 01:00:16 vusolo2 user.debug kernel: bmem: adding 512 MB LINUX region at
768 MB (0x20000000@0x30000000)

[Rob van der Does]

The very same question has been asked several times, so you get indeed the same answer: all commands only show the memory in user-space (i.e. total memory minus system reserved memory).

[d_ino]

Many Thanks!