I guess Crucial has been having quality problems recently. My company's IT dept reports 10% DOA, and more flaky. dan wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff