[Tfug] GNOME System Monitor not reporting all available memory

Glen Pfeiffer glen at thepfeiffers.net
Mon Aug 6 09:32:53 MST 2007


On 08/06/2007 09:16 AM, Robert Hunter wrote:
> On 8/6/07, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
>> I have 2GB of memory in my dev machine, and all of it is 
>> recognized by the BIOS, but the GNOME System Monitor reports 
>> only 885.5 MB.
> 
> Glen, you could peek at /proc/meminfo.
> 

Thanks.

Output:
MemTotal:       906792 kB

Now it is official that Debian is not recognizing 2GB.

What should I do to troubleshoot this? I suppose someone will 
recommend testing the memory, so I will run memtest on it. Assume 
for a moment that the memory is fine, what would my next step be?

-- 
Glen 





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