Am i supposed to see total 3.6gb under system monitor?

ZMaNFaRLee · 07-31-2019, 04:53 PM

Hi all.

I have an old lenovo thinkpad t430 that is running linux mint. Under System Monitor it shows 3.6gb but I have 2x2gb ram sticks.

Is something wrong here? I don't understand the 32bit vs 64bit and am not sure if that could be it cause this is an older laptop.

Thoughts?

I don't believe the bios has ever been updated (bought used) but I am not sure where to start on that as supposedly Lenovo makes it tough.

Appreciate any help and ideas!

BW-userx · 07-31-2019, 05:40 PM

so 2+2=4=3.6GB like 300GB hard drive = less then 300GB hard drive. it is how they sell it to you vice how it is read by the system.

I got total 8GB RAM but it only shows 7.378GB

ZMaNFaRLee · 07-31-2019, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

so 2+2=4=3.6GB like 300GB hard drive = less then 300GB hard drive. it is how they sell it to you vice how it is read by the system.

I got total 8GB RAM but it only shows 7.378GB

Thank you!!!!!!

fatmac · 08-01-2019, 03:38 AM

In your ram case, the system has likely reserved the 'missing' ram for the use by the graphics.

In the case of disk sizes, manufacterers use 1000 as the unit count, whereas the system uses 1024 (a binary size) as the count.

(A 100GB disk is 100x1000, the 'true' size is 10x1000/1024 GiB, which is the size you will see.)