Re: 3Gb ram being reported as 1.9Gb
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:33 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: Olá Nishith e a todos. On Monday 30 March 2009 15:44:10 Nishith Nand wrote: Should also note that some boards are incapable of using DIMMs bigger then some size, or chipset limits to the amount of address memory. In your case maybe you are being hit by the board limit or a faulty DIMM. Run memtest to be sure. I have an ASUS A8N VM mobo, it supports 4GBs of RAM. Its detected correctly by windows. memtest shows me 3071MB RAM. I guess you found a bug... http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug (or better yet: $ apport-cli -fp linux) Not necessarily; I'd still like to hear whether the amd64 version works fine. If it does, it's most likely the BIOS memory layout that's the issue. A PAE-enabled kernel would probably work - Nishith: have you tried installing a -server variant of the kernel and seeing whether that can utilise all of your memory? Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: 3Gb ram being reported as 1.9Gb
256MB, its a nVidia 8600GT. Regards, Nishith On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Chris Cheney cche...@ubuntu.com wrote: How much memory does your video card have? Chris -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: 3Gb ram being reported as 1.9Gb
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 17:26 +0530, Nishith Nand wrote: 256MB, its a nVidia 8600GT. If you have 3GB RAM and only a 256MB video card then it should be showing more than 1.9GB RAM free. You should probably update your motherboard BIOS if you haven't already. If you still have problems with it showing only 1.9GB RAM after that you might want to file a kernel bug report. Do you see the full 3GB RAM on any other OS, or have you only tried Ubuntu? Chris -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: 3Gb ram being reported as 1.9Gb
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 20:37 +0530, Nishith Nand wrote: I know that 32 bit ubuntu has a limit at around 3.3 Gb but I have less than that. So, I was hoping that I won't have to install the server or the 64bit version. The memory is detected correctly in the BIOS. I am using jaunty 32bit, fully upgraded. Actually the limit of 32-bit entirely depends on your BIOS, it would only be factually true to say that the limit is less than 4GB. A possible scenario is that the BIOS places the first 2GB where you'd expect, and then leaves a 2GB aperture for things like video card memory and DMA - placing your final 1GB above the 4GB memory address. This would result in only 2GB being visible to a 32-bit operating system, such as Ubuntu i386. Have you tried an Ubuntu amd64 Live CD? I assume that your system is capable of running a 64-bit version. Does this show the full range of memory? If so, I suggest checking your BIOS for such things as apertures and memory holes to see whether you can have your additional 1GB mapped to lower memory than it is currently being. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: 3Gb ram being reported as 1.9Gb
It shows up correctly in windows vista. Could it have anything to do with virtual box? I assigned 1GB RAM for that and that's about the same as the amount missing. It might, also, just be a coincidence as I had recently added 2GBs and had not checked before installing virtualbox. I have uninstalled it as of now and also removed its kernel modules. I will check my BIOS settings for apertures and memory holes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Chris Cheney cche...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 17:26 +0530, Nishith Nand wrote: 256MB, its a nVidia 8600GT. If you have 3GB RAM and only a 256MB video card then it should be showing more than 1.9GB RAM free. You should probably update your motherboard BIOS if you haven't already. If you still have problems with it showing only 1.9GB RAM after that you might want to file a kernel bug report. Do you see the full 3GB RAM on any other OS, or have you only tried Ubuntu? Chris -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: 3Gb ram being reported as 1.9Gb
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Nishith Nand mr.n.n...@gmail.com wrote: It shows up correctly in windows vista. Could it have anything to do with virtual box? I assigned 1GB RAM for that and that's about the same as the amount missing. It might, also, just be a coincidence as I had recently added 2GBs and had not checked before installing virtualbox. I have uninstalled it as of now and also removed its kernel modules. I will check my BIOS settings for apertures and memory holes. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Chris Cheney cche...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 17:26 +0530, Nishith Nand wrote: 256MB, its a nVidia 8600GT. If you have 3GB RAM and only a 256MB video card then it should be showing more than 1.9GB RAM free. You should probably update your motherboard BIOS if you haven't already. If you still have problems with it showing only 1.9GB RAM after that you might want to file a kernel bug report. Do you see the full 3GB RAM on any other OS, or have you only tried Ubuntu? Chris -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop I just enabled memory hole in my BIOS and now I can see 2.4GB memory. Here's the new meminfo MemTotal:2498472 kB MemFree: 1888244 kB Buffers: 56100 kB Cached: 253608 kB SwapCached:0 kB Active: 352924 kB Inactive: 207284 kB Active(anon): 256764 kB Inactive(anon):0 kB Active(file): 96160 kB Inactive(file): 207284 kB Unevictable: 48 kB Mlocked: 48 kB HighTotal: 1634056 kB HighFree:1118252 kB LowTotal: 864416 kB LowFree: 769992 kB SwapTotal:779144 kB SwapFree: 779144 kB Dirty: 952 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages:250552 kB Mapped:92132 kB Slab: 17792 kB SReclaimable: 10588 kB SUnreclaim: 7204 kB PageTables: 2480 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce:0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2028380 kB Committed_AS: 744304 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 53328 kB VmallocChunk: 57844 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free:0 HugePages_Rsvd:0 HugePages_Surp:0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB DirectMap4k: 32760 kB DirectMap4M: 872448 kB -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: 3Gb ram being reported as 1.9Gb
How much memory does your video card have? Chris -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
