On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 11:42 -0500, Doug wrote: > I'm surprised that Memtest gives different results depending on what > disk you run it from, I guess it would be a good idea to download a > stand-alone version and run a sanity check on the download. BTW, > Memtest has been around forever. I think I first saw it around > 1990, or maybe even earlier. > > How do you check to see how much memory your system has > available to use? Obviously, you have to test that from within the OS.
$ hwinfo --memory | grep Size [1] Memory Size: 3 GB + 512 MB 256MB are missing, since 256 MB are frame buffer for the on-board graphics. If I mount my NVIDIA with it's own RAM, the output will be + additional 256 MB, so that still 256 MB are missing. I guess my Debian (AVLinux) does use a PAE kernel and there no RAM should be missing. I checked this a long time ago and since I don't have issues and I don't need the missing RAM, I don't care. If different versions would cause different results, I wouldn't be surprised. [1] This version of hwinfo is broken, I get process 3804: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) == NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-errors.c line 282. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. libhal.c 3483 : Error unsubscribing to signals, error=The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files but in the past I tested it with versions that did not report such issues and IIRC I also used other commands. I don't have time to do tests and it's unimportant for me, but I'll keep in mind to install current Debian version and to run memtest from the memtest homepage. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1354121844.3152.26.camel@q
