SOLVED Bizarre anomaly in memory size reporting

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Two systems with what I think of as "the same" amount of memory, ASUS motherboards (though different ones), and the same AMD processor -- reporting different amounts of memory! (Trivial difference.)

These systems we throw around so casually are awfully complicated!

16082MB vs 16257MB (so, trivial difference; but I wouldn't have expected any difference).

I don't see any problem to solve here, at least (I don't imagine) in FreeNAS; just surprised and amused.

 

[jgreco]

Most likely video memory reservation, or some other difference in the memory map. Did you check the BIOS to see if they were both set the same?

 

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Doh! Yep, that'll be it. The one reporting slightly less memory is the one with on-board video, the one reporting more available memory uses an external graphics card.

Thanks!