[CentOS-virt] Why does AWS instance always lost around 500MB memory

Tue Aug 2 06:57:07 UTC 2016
Dũng Trần-Dương <chris.duong83 at gmail.com>

Hi Stephen,

I've just tested in Virtualbox, same thing happened to CentOS but the loss
is lesser than in AWS.

Both machines are allocated with 4096MB in Vagrantfile.

```
[vagrant at my-multi-centos-72 ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        3882384 kB
MemFree:         3527648 kB

vagrant at my-multi-ubuntu-1604:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        4046708 kB
MemFree:         3695204 kB
```


On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 8:29 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 1 August 2016 at 07:30, Dũng Trần-Dương <chris.duong83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I launched an AWS instance `t2.medium` (use CentOS 7 image
> "ami-7abd0209",
> > product code: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00O7WM7QW), which
> is
> > supposed to have 4GB Memory in total, but turn out it is only "3.5GB".
> >
>
> A rough guess would be that the system has reserved some memory for
> crashkernel but that is a guess. I would look at /proc/commandline to
> see what the kernel is starting up with.
>
>
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.
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