On Monday 12 November 2007 10:33:39 am David C. Rankin wrote: > Mates, > > This was probably answered before, but I couldn't find it on a quick > search. I have a dell optiplex GX280 and I just installed 4G of ram. The > Bios sees all 4G just fine, but when I look at the memory with free it > only shows 3G seen. Like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> free -tm > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3040 717 2322 0 54 450 > -/+ buffers/cache: 212 2828 > Swap: 1027 0 1027 > Total: 4068 717 3350 > > > What is the trick to getting all of the memory to be recognized? If > there is a quick opensuse link, just shoot me that. Thanks. > > P.S. Terrible problem only having 2.3G free, instead of 3.3G free. But > with 2G chips running $40, it's hard to pass up. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com I ran into this when I started a new p4 with 4GB. After much searching and tearing my hair out I found an article on the Asus website that said if all slots are full it will subtaract the memory that is used by various card, ie graphics, like mine is 128MB. It will then subtract all the funny memory from the total and thats whats displayed. I now have the bigsmp kernel installed but have not had a chance to look into this as I'm still trying to get my system restored after a disk burp. Apparently my backup to dvd did not retail file permissions. having to enter all of them for kmail folders by hand.
I check when i;m done. as I'm sending this from my old machine which has 10.3. since the newer machine is an Asus board with sata drives I have to wait for the patch. So I reinstalled 10.2 after the raid crash. -- Russ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
