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searchfgold6789

Member

Registered: 2011-09-13

Posts: 41

SliTaz only sees 2 GB of my 4 GB of RAM

Hi,

I have a Dell XPS 600 (Pentium D 3 Ghz, Nvidia GeForce 6800) with 4 GB of RAM installed. I have one other OS installed, Kubuntu 32 bit, which can use all of my RAM, but when using SliTaz, the Task Manager only sees 2 GB total. The following is my RAM configuration (bank 1 is PC6400U memory, the rest is PC5300U):

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(I run [c]sudo lshw -c memory[/c] in Kubuntu or SliTaz)

[c]*-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: 1000
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 4GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
          product: NT1GT64U8HA0BY-37B
          vendor: Nanya Technology
          physical id: 0
          serial: 59AA1E84
          slot: DIMM_1
          size: 1GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 533MHz (1.9ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
          product: EBE10UE8ACWA-8G-E
          vendor: 7F7FFE0000000000
          physical id: 1
          serial: CCEF1CA6
          slot: DIMM_3
          size: 1GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 533MHz (1.9ns)
     *-bank:2
          description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
          product: NT1GT64U8HA0BY-37B
          vendor: Nanya Technology
          physical id: 2
          serial: 10AC1E85
          slot: DIMM_2
          size: 1GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 533MHz (1.9ns)
     *-bank:3
          description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 533 MHz (1.9 ns)
          product: HYMP512U64CP8-Y5
          vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics)
          physical id: 3
          serial: 00003267
          slot: DIMM_4
          size: 1GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 533MHz (1.9ns)[/c]
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Is it a kernel issue? If so, should I go compile another kernel?

Many thanks,

- searchfgold

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: SliTaz only sees 2 GB of my 4 GB of RAM

Open terminal:

[c]free -m[/c]

[c]free -g[/c]

ernia

Member

Registered: 2011-05-20

Posts: 299

Re: SliTaz only sees 2 GB of my 4 GB of RAM

well, i didn't noticed that, kubuntu is probably using a PAE kernel, this is my output:

[c]root@sltvaio:/home/fabio# free -m
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:          2840         1081         1758            0          227
-/+ buffers:                853         1986
Swap:        16383            0        16383
root@sltvaio:/home/fabio# free -g
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:             2            1            1            0            0
-/+ buffers:                  0            1
Swap:           15            0           15[/c]
i have 4 Gb too

PS i'm on cooking

searchfgold6789

Member

Registered: 2011-09-13

Posts: 41

Re: SliTaz only sees 2 GB of my 4 GB of RAM

[c]$ free -m
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:          2023          177         1845            0           13
-/+ buffers:                163         1859
Swap:         6063            0         6063
$ free -g
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:             1            0            1            0            0
-/+ buffers:                  0            1
Swap:            5            0            5
$[/c]
Yeah, I'm probably going to see about compiling a new kernel for it.