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by LinMusGuy » Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:53 pm
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cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 3093788 kB
MemFree: 1806580 kB
Buffers: 65176 kB
Cached: 652512 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 647768 kB
Inactive: 585568 kB
Active(anon): 516804 kB
Inactive(anon): 157772 kB
Active(file): 130964 kB
Inactive(file): 427796 kB
Unevictable: 0 kB
Mlocked: 0 kB
HighTotal: 2223688 kB
HighFree: 1351088 kB
LowTotal: 870100 kB
LowFree: 455492 kB
SwapTotal: 2086908 kB
SwapFree: 2086908 kB
Dirty: 168 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 515684 kB
Mapped: 197104 kB
Shmem: 158932 kB
Slab: 30172 kB
SReclaimable: 17288 kB
SUnreclaim: 12884 kB
KernelStack: 3416 kB
PageTables: 7492 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 3633800 kB
Committed_AS: 1908428 kB
VmallocTotal: 122880 kB
VmallocUsed: 11460 kB
VmallocChunk: 106600 kB
HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
AnonHugePages: 71680 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
DirectMap4k: 16376 kB
DirectMap2M: 897024 kB
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by merlyn » Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:58 pm
Looks like you're better without that stick.
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by LinMusGuy » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:03 pm
Removed the stick. And now it's this:
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free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3093788 621612 2472176 79984 59960 351856
-/+ buffers/cache: 209796 2883992
Swap: 2086908 0 2086908
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by LinMusGuy » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:16 pm
And this:
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*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
physical id: 0
version: 0903
date: 03/03/2008
size: 64KiB
capacity: 960KiB
capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 5
slot: L1-Cache
size: 64KiB
capacity: 64KiB
capabilities: internal write-back data
*-cache:1
description: L2 cache
physical id: 6
slot: L2-Cache
size: 3MiB
capacity: 3MiB
capabilities: internal write-back instruction
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 32
slot: Systeem- of moederbord
size: 6GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchroon
product: PartNum0
vendor: Manufacturer0
physical id: 0
serial: SerNum0
slot: DIMM_A1
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
*-bank:1
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchroon
product: PartNum1
vendor: Manufacturer1
physical id: 1
serial: SerNum1
slot: DIMM_A2
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
*-bank:2
description: DIMM DDR2 Synchroon
product: PartNum2
vendor: Manufacturer2
physical id: 2
serial: SerNum2
slot: DIMM_B1
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
*-bank:3
description: DIMMProject-Id-Version: lshwReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>POT-Creation-Date: 2009-10-08 14:02+0200PO-Revision-Date: 2013-01-22 19:06+0000Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>Language-Team: Dutch <nl@li.org>MIME-Version: 1.0Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bitX-Launchpad-Export-Date: 2016-07-20 12:05+0000X-Generator: Launchpad (build 18147) [empty]
product: PartNum3
vendor: Manufacturer3
physical id: 3
serial: SerNum3
slot: DIMM_B2
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by merlyn » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:28 pm
That's strange. lshw recognises the ram but free doesn't. Make sure all the sticks are clicked in their slots, then boot again.
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by merlyn » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:36 pm
I saw in another thread you were thinking about replacing your CMOS battery. If you take the battery out that will reset the BIOS to its defaults, and I think that would fix this. You had a higher value using free earlier when you first put in the two extra sticks.
When you take the battery out, wait 20 seconds before putting another one in, and that will reset the BIOS.
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by LinMusGuy » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:51 pm
Now it's:
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free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 5160136 587008 4573128 80924 59932 342180
-/+ buffers/cache: 184896 4975240
Swap: 2086908 0 2086908
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by merlyn » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:07 pm
You've fixed it. Did you take the battery out?
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by LinMusGuy » Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:07 am
merlyn wrote: You've fixed it. Did you take the battery out?
Yes - and after putting it in again I restored the default values of BIOS (by pressing F2 if I remember well). From there on the total RAM memory looked OK again.
But I found on the internet that there might be a good reason for the
checked free memory being different from the
installed RAM memory , at least after using your computer for a while. See:
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
I will leave the hardware as it is for now, that is until I might need extra speed and/or memory.