/proc/meminfo sizes [SOLVED]

[cwr]

My elderly laptop has two 512 MB sticks, each of which /proc/meminfo sees
as 512 MB on their own. Together, however, they total around 900 MB under
Gentoo, kernel 2.38, and around 1024 MB under Ubuntu, kernel 2.32. Does
anyone know where the change occurred, and why?

Thanks - Will

[krinn]

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6864148-highlight-memory.html#6864148

?

[cwr]

That could well be the answer - I'll check it out.

Thanks - Will

Edit: yes, that works. Interesting - I thought 1-4G meant 1G and over.
Some sort of decimal/binary number confusion?