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From: thelma@sys-concept.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hardware - memory problem
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:46:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9daf4954-0d86-cf8b-340b-6772c0af3972@sys-concept.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+ecR=GFcowOnQ6GqMsh1chgOHEBQCsHZDw2fhY8y6WWa8w@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/16/2020 03:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:29 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:22 PM <thelma@sys-concept.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I run Memtest86 on my old box and it completed 1pass without any errors.
>>> Memtest86 reports 16G memory
>>>
>>> When I boot Gentoo it shows only 3282Mb
>>> free -m
>>>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache
>>> available
>>> Mem:           3282         125        2475           7         680
>>>   3033
>>>
>>> Is it a motherboard? How to test it?
>>>
>>
>> Start with
>>
>> cat /proc/meminfo
> 
>>
> Or lshw and look for the DIMM modules themselves

cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        3360992 kB
MemFree:         2806556 kB
MemAvailable:    3077952 kB
Buffers:           97156 kB
Cached:           262116 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           329656 kB
Inactive:         133864 kB
Active(anon):     104804 kB
Inactive(anon):     2964 kB
Active(file):     224852 kB
Inactive(file):   130900 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       2504328 kB
HighFree:        2120028 kB
LowTotal:         856664 kB
LowFree:          686528 kB
SwapTotal:       8757244 kB
SwapFree:        8757244 kB
Dirty:               292 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        104252 kB
Mapped:            93812 kB
Shmem:              3516 kB
KReclaimable:      34340 kB
Slab:              56524 kB
SReclaimable:      34340 kB
SUnreclaim:        22184 kB
KernelStack:        2256 kB
PageTables:         2596 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:    10437740 kB
Committed_AS:     987564 kB
VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
VmallocUsed:        4080 kB
VmallocChunk:          0 kB
Percpu:             1248 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
Hugetlb:               0 kB
DirectMap4k:       12280 kB
DirectMap4M:      888832 kB


lshw -C memory
 *-memory
       description: System Memory
       physical id: 29
       slot: System board or motherboard
       size: 16GiB
     *-bank:0
          description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
          physical id: 0
          slot: A0
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
     *-bank:1
          description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
          physical id: 1
          slot: A1
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
     *-bank:2
          description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
          physical id: 2
          slot: A2
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
     *-bank:3
          description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
          physical id: 3
          slot: A3
          size: 4GiB
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)


When I loot at "htop" it only shows:
Mem:    155M/3.21G


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-16 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-16 22:22 [gentoo-user] hardware - memory problem thelma
2020-12-16 22:29 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 22:34   ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 22:46     ` thelma [this message]
2020-12-16 23:01       ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 23:14         ` thelma
2020-12-16 23:26           ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 23:39           ` Manuel McLure
2020-12-16 22:51     ` antlists
2020-12-16 23:12       ` thelma
2020-12-16 23:43         ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-16 23:51           ` Grant Edwards
2020-12-17  4:03         ` [gentoo-user] " bobwxc
2020-12-16 22:46 ` Manuel McLure

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