4 GB not detected in Menu-meters

[James Howlett]

my system tells me i have 4 GB of ram but menu-meters says i have 3985 MB total, if my GB to MB math is right, 4096 MB should be 4 GB and i actually have 3.89 GB of ram

 

[bstreiff]

The video chipset takes some of the system RAM; this is why you're just a little short of 4096MB.

 

[Eidorian]

The video chipset takes some of the system RAM; this is why you're just a little short of 4096MB.

It looks like they have an iMac though.

 

[James Howlett]

Yeah, I have an iMac (first mac) 3.06 with the 8800 GS (GTS?) with its own 512 MB VRAM. Where does the extra 107 MB of RAM go?

 

[bstreiff]

Hm. I'm not sure, then.

On my MacBook, MenuMeters tells me 4086MB total, the 'missing' 10MB allocated to the GMAX3100 (which can use up to 144MB max).