Allocated Mem - 700MB missing

[Andreas]

Hi experts!

Where are the missing 700MB ???		(4GB installed)
700 MB is too much, that can't be only because of version-differences!

I compared (unmodified) stable/testing kernels with Xen and OpenVZ-kernel:
all out of main debian packages:

Only3200:
----------
*Linux host 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 24 16:41:07 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
*Linux knoppix 2.6.24.4 #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 25 21:35:28 CET 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
*Linux host 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux


Full4GB:
---------
*Linux host 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 07:07:25 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

I'm using:
Dell Optiplex 755
Board Product name (DMI): 0GM819
2x2GB (4064MB) installed


Here the output of free:

#mem: Only3200free:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3358232      30760    3327472          0       1668      13608
-/+ buffers/cache:      15484    3342748
Swap:            0          0          0

#memOnly3200freeXenDom0.txt:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3873216     136068    3737148          0       1024      12852
-/+ buffers/cache:     122192    3751024
Swap:            0          0          0

#memOnly3900free-2.6.30.1-amd64.txt:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3920696     606612    3314084          0      14608     251372
-/+ buffers/cache:     340632    3580064
Swap:      7831676          0    7831676

#memFull4GBfree-OpenVZ (Dom0):
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4003584     451420    3552164          0       8132     143652
-/+ buffers/cache:     299636    3703948
Swap:            0          0          0

I attached the output of dmesg and proc/meminfo of 
the normal kernel (only 3200M) and openVZ-kernel (gives full 4GBs)
XenDom0 gives 3900, which is ok.

i*)Question2:
Do I have better performance, if installed to DIMM1+3 (next to each other) 
 => Bios says: asynchronous, 
  or DIMM1+2 (3 inbetween them left out) => Bios says: synchronous ?


Please be so kind and also send your answer to andreas2 (AT)
 logic.univie.ac.at        (I didn't subscribe to the group) 


thanks!
Andrew

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