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I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw recognize the memory configuration (2 dimm of 1G and 2 of 2G), but /prc/meminfo and a test program I ran recognize 3.2GB. |
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My system configuration: |
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cpu: core2 6600 |
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chipset: DP965LT (Intel's motherboard) |
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$ uname -a |
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Linux nadav 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 6 16:53:07 IDT 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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c$ cat /proc/meminfo |
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MemTotal: 3347392 kB |
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MemFree: 2687760 kB |
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Buffers: 22912 kB |
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Cached: 350868 kB |
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SwapCached: 0 kB |
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Active: 315244 kB |
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Inactive: 268072 kB |
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SwapTotal: 2008116 kB |
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SwapFree: 2008116 kB |
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Dirty: 24 kB |
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Writeback: 0 kB |
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AnonPages: 209536 kB |
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Mapped: 75700 kB |
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Slab: 30152 kB |
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SReclaimable: 17292 kB |
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SUnreclaim: 12860 kB |
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PageTables: 11760 kB |
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NFS_Unstable: 0 kB |
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Bounce: 0 kB |
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WritebackTmp: 0 kB |
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CommitLimit: 3681812 kB |
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Committed_AS: 473288 kB |
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VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB |
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VmallocUsed: 176468 kB |
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VmallocChunk: 34359561723 kB |
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DirectMap4k: 15360 kB |
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DirectMap2M: 3391488 kB |
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Memory report out of lshw: |
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*-memory |
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description: System Memory |
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physical id: 17 |
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slot: System board or motherboard |
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size: 6GiB |
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*-bank:0 |
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description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns) |
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product: 0x202020202020202020202020202020202020 |
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vendor: 0x7F98000000000000 |
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physical id: 0 |
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serial: 0xD1CCDFF7 |
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slot: J6H1 |
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size: 2GiB |
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width: 64 bits |
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clock: 667MHz (1.5ns) |
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*-bank:1 |
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description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns) |
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product: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000 |
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vendor: 0x7F98000000000000 |
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physical id: 1 |
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serial: 0x6C06E0E5 |
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slot: J6H2 |
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size: 1GiB |
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width: 64 bits |
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clock: 667MHz (1.5ns) |
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*-bank:2 |
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description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns) |
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product: 0x202020202020202020202020202020202020 |
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vendor: 0x7F98000000000000 |
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physical id: 2 |
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serial: 0xD1CCFFF7 |
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slot: J6J1 |
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size: 2GiB |
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width: 64 bits |
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clock: 667MHz (1.5ns) |
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*-bank:3 |
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description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns) |
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product: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000 |
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vendor: 0x7F98000000000000 |
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physical id: 3 |
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serial: 0x660663BC |
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slot: J6J2 |
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size: 1GiB |
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width: 64 bits |
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clock: 667MHz (1.5ns) |
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Any idea? |
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