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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hardware - memory problem
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 22:46:33
Message-Id: 9daf4954-0d86-cf8b-340b-6772c0af3972@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] hardware - memory problem by Mark Knecht
1 On 12/16/2020 03:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:29 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >>
4 >>
5 >>
6 >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:22 PM <thelma@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>> I run Memtest86 on my old box and it completed 1pass without any errors.
9 >>> Memtest86 reports 16G memory
10 >>>
11 >>> When I boot Gentoo it shows only 3282Mb
12 >>> free -m
13 >>> total used free shared buff/cache
14 >>> available
15 >>> Mem: 3282 125 2475 7 680
16 >>> 3033
17 >>>
18 >>> Is it a motherboard? How to test it?
19 >>>
20 >>
21 >> Start with
22 >>
23 >> cat /proc/meminfo
24 >
25 >>
26 > Or lshw and look for the DIMM modules themselves
27
28 cat /proc/meminfo
29 MemTotal: 3360992 kB
30 MemFree: 2806556 kB
31 MemAvailable: 3077952 kB
32 Buffers: 97156 kB
33 Cached: 262116 kB
34 SwapCached: 0 kB
35 Active: 329656 kB
36 Inactive: 133864 kB
37 Active(anon): 104804 kB
38 Inactive(anon): 2964 kB
39 Active(file): 224852 kB
40 Inactive(file): 130900 kB
41 Unevictable: 0 kB
42 Mlocked: 0 kB
43 HighTotal: 2504328 kB
44 HighFree: 2120028 kB
45 LowTotal: 856664 kB
46 LowFree: 686528 kB
47 SwapTotal: 8757244 kB
48 SwapFree: 8757244 kB
49 Dirty: 292 kB
50 Writeback: 0 kB
51 AnonPages: 104252 kB
52 Mapped: 93812 kB
53 Shmem: 3516 kB
54 KReclaimable: 34340 kB
55 Slab: 56524 kB
56 SReclaimable: 34340 kB
57 SUnreclaim: 22184 kB
58 KernelStack: 2256 kB
59 PageTables: 2596 kB
60 NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
61 Bounce: 0 kB
62 WritebackTmp: 0 kB
63 CommitLimit: 10437740 kB
64 Committed_AS: 987564 kB
65 VmallocTotal: 122880 kB
66 VmallocUsed: 4080 kB
67 VmallocChunk: 0 kB
68 Percpu: 1248 kB
69 HugePages_Total: 0
70 HugePages_Free: 0
71 HugePages_Rsvd: 0
72 HugePages_Surp: 0
73 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
74 Hugetlb: 0 kB
75 DirectMap4k: 12280 kB
76 DirectMap4M: 888832 kB
77
78
79 lshw -C memory
80 *-memory
81 description: System Memory
82 physical id: 29
83 slot: System board or motherboard
84 size: 16GiB
85 *-bank:0
86 description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
87 physical id: 0
88 slot: A0
89 size: 4GiB
90 width: 64 bits
91 clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
92 *-bank:1
93 description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
94 physical id: 1
95 slot: A1
96 size: 4GiB
97 width: 64 bits
98 clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
99 *-bank:2
100 description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
101 physical id: 2
102 slot: A2
103 size: 4GiB
104 width: 64 bits
105 clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
106 *-bank:3
107 description: DIMM 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
108 physical id: 3
109 slot: A3
110 size: 4GiB
111 width: 64 bits
112 clock: 1333MHz (0.8ns)
113
114
115 When I loot at "htop" it only shows:
116 Mem: 155M/3.21G

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