Available Physical Memory Lower Than Total System
Build a PC Total physical memory much lower than it should be. But i think when looking at Total Physical Memory one sees memory available AFTER a video adapter takes a chunk but before the. Ok first of all data storage capacity is always lower than the amount shown as there are overheads in the formatting of the storage device. Your hard drive may be 120GB but the amount available is 106GB so 14GB has vanished, this is because the file system always reduces this amount, also of the 106GB the operating system takes it chunk so you may be left with 90GB of space. Real and Physical. Physical memory is the amount of DRAM which is currently used. Real memory shows how much your applications are using system DRAM memory. It is roughly lower than physical memory. Linux system caches some of disk data. This caching is the difference between physical and real memory.
Total Physical Memory Available
Dear Sir, I have installed OS Windows 7 64 bit. In my system information, I am getting much lower physical memory than total physical memory. Total physical memory 5.92 GB Available Physical memory 1.92 Does this mean that in the current situation, my system is only capable of using up to 1.92 GB. Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 8.0 GB. Total Physical Memory: 7.94 GB. Available Physical Memory: 4.84 GB If I run stick #2 only in DIMMA2, I see: Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 8.0 GB. Total Physical Memory: 7.94 GB. Available Physical Memory: 5.31 GB So it looks like neither stick is dead.