[SOLVED] Installed PAE, still RAM shows 3.2GB

cb951303 · 2013-10-30 19:06:38

I have 16GB of ram. I installed linux-pae from http://pae.archlinux.ca/ yet when I boot I still get 3.2 GB of RAM.

Any ideas

Last edited by cb951303 (2013-10-30 21:23:59)

karol · 2013-10-30 19:16:30

Did you use the package from the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-pae/ ? nwm, this seems to be the same thing

Can you posts some more info, logs etc.?

Last edited by karol (2013-10-30 19:18:26)

cb951303 · 2013-10-30 19:42:06

Here is my cpuinfo: http://pastebin.com/8aGp35i6
Here is the output of "free -mt": http://pastebin.com/n3m6P4hz

Which logs would have information about PAE?

Last edited by cb951303 (2013-10-30 19:42:46)

karol · 2013-10-30 19:50:37

cb951303 wrote:

Which logs would have information about PAE?

No idea ;P
What's the output of 'uname -a'?

Why are you using PAE instead of a regular 64-bit system?

cb951303 · 2013-10-30 20:23:12

karol wrote:

cb951303 wrote:
Which logs would have information about PAE?
Why are you using PAE instead of a regular 64-bit system?

I get constant headaches with lib32* when using proprietary software. I might switch though I really don't want to reinstall eveything. If PAE works I'll stay.

2ManyDogs · 2013-10-30 20:55:07

cb951303 wrote:

Which logs would have information about PAE?

In the absence of a better plan, let's start with these

uname -a
sudo dmidecode --type 6

You may need to install dmidecode to get the last one.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2013-10-30 20:57:19)

WorMzy · 2013-10-30 21:03:55

cb951303 wrote:

If PAE works I'll stay.

It doesn't.

http://cl4ssic4l.wordpress.com/2011/05/ … about-pae/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1290277

cb951303 · 2013-10-30 21:17:04

2ManyDogs wrote:

cb951303 wrote:
Which logs would have information about PAE?
In the absence of a better plan, let's start with these
uname -a
sudo dmidecode --type 6
You may need to install dmidecode to get the last one.

Linux localhost 3.11.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 19 00:29:46 CEST 2013 i686 GNU/Linux

# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

karol · 2013-10-30 21:19:49

This looks like the regular Arch kernel. Did you reboot and load the pae kernel?

cb951303 · 2013-10-30 21:20:10

WorMzy wrote:

cb951303 wrote:
If PAE works I'll stay.
It doesn't.
http://cl4ssic4l.wordpress.com/2011/05/ … about-pae/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1290277

From what I understand anything over 1Gb + 32 bit = fucked. So I might as well use 16Gb with PAE and get fucked.

Last edited by cb951303 (2013-10-30 21:20:24)

cb951303 · 2013-10-30 21:23:03

Problem solved. GRUB entries were not updated. Silly me.

Thanks very much

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