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Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-CA Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A742F26.5FDA8E43.0046:SCFSTAT54230205,ss=1,re=-4.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: -4.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.3 cv=FcdJO626 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=u3gW5Uk2xAGXuEgp5FffjQ==:117 a=u3gW5Uk2xAGXuEgp5FffjQ==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=046jbqsEAAAA:8 a=G9QCvHzaz-lk3dV-Vn4A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=bGzDz6Hpkc7_N_b525It:22 X-VADE-SPAMSTATE: clean X-VADE-SPAMSCORE: 0 X-VADE-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedujedrudelfedgtddvucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecujffquffvqffrkfetpdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhepuffvfhfhkffffgggjggtgfesthejredttdefjeenucfhrhhomhepthhhvghlmhgrsehshihsqdgtohhntggvphhtrdgtohhmnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepffekueffledvvdevfefhgfffkeduvdehfeehteekgfdujeehgfekheffheektddtnecukfhppedukeegrdeiledrvdegvddrudeknecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehinhgvthepudekgedrieelrddvgedvrddukedphhgvlhhopegluddtrddtrddtrddutdefngdpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehthhgvlhhmrgesshihshdqtghonhgtvghpthdrtghomhdprhgtphhtthhopehgvghnthhoohdquhhsvghrsehlihhsthhsrdhgvghnthhoohdrohhrgh X-Origin-Country: CA X-Archives-Salt: afa91f92-c66c-457a-990b-529939679fa5 X-Archives-Hash: a3cbc26a7bf271ba59d51ca494549480 On 12/16/2020 03:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:29 PM Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:22 PM 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