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Why I only got 490 MB of RAM from my 512 MB VPS?

Posted on November 25, 2013

I got only 490 MB RAM of my VPS.

free -m

         total       used       free     shared    buf

Mem: 490 277 212 0

But I thought I am using 512 MB VPS. From my experience in other VPS provider, I can get full 512 MB RAM, please tell me where is the 22 MB RAM?

free -m

         total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached

Mem: 512 216 295 0 0 0



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Your droplet has 512MB assigned however 22MB of that is reserved by the droplet’s kernel.

Where in the DigitalOcean documentation/promotional materials did you read that you get 512MB of free memory?

@Pablo <br>https://www.dropbox.com/s/cu5z8vcj75d0klq/螢幕截圖 2013-11-26 22.58.08.png <br> <br>Didn’t you read the pricing page of DigitalOcean?

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