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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,020

Memory issue [solved]

I have 2GB of RAM in my computer. This shows up properly in Windows which I am dual-booting with. I noticed a couple days ago that if I look at the system monitor in GNOME, it only shows up as 1011.4 MiB. Also, if I run $free in bash, I get...

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1035688     300208     735480          0       2852     135264
-/+ buffers/cache:     162092     873596
Swap:       265064          0     265064

Anyone know why Arch Linux can't see my other 1GB?

Last edited by tony5429 (2007-06-11 20:32:37)

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: Memory issue [solved]

perhaps you could try mem=2048M as a kernel boot parameter and check if all your ram is detected?

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tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,020

Re: Memory issue [solved]

thanks - i'll give it a shot. but, just wondering, where is the file i need to add that to?

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Memory issue [solved]

If using grub, to the "kernel" line of the arch entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, if using lilo in lilo.conf but I don't know the details about that file.

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,020

Re: Memory issue [solved]

well i changed my arch boot section (in grub) to...

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro mem=2048M
initrd /kernel26.img

And rebooted. But I am still getting this when running $free

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1035696     385796     649900          0      10536     169376
-/+ buffers/cache:     205884     829812
Swap:       265064          0     265064

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,020

Re: Memory issue [solved]

silly me; my ram was just dislodged a bit and dusty. i have solved the problem. sorry for the trouble.