[rhelv6-beta-list] Memory missing in RHEL6 Beta 2

[Morten P.D. Stevens]

Hi,

i installed the RHEL 6 Beta 2 in a VM with 4096 MB and there are only 3832 MB memory available.

Is this normal?

[root at rhel6 ~]# uname -a
Linux rhel6.corp.imt-systems.com 2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 20 19:29:35 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root at rhel6 ~]# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3832        204       3628          0          5         58
-/+ buffers/cache:        140       3692
Swap:         2047          0       2047

[root at rhel6 ~]# cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x000000000 (    0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back
reg02: base=0x100000000 ( 4096MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back

[root at rhel6 ~]# dmesg | grep Memory
Memory: 3910988k/5242880k available (4998k kernel code, 1049156k absent, 282736k reserved, 3964k data, 1220k init)

Best regards,

Morten