[clue-tech] Memory

Michael Mosbauer mmosbauer at comcast.net
Mon Jan 16 13:10:49 MST 2006


I have checked using free -m and I also used cat /proc/meminfo both are 
only reporting 128MB.  Based on the distro's I'm using, I should have 
the latest Kernal and it should support up to 1Gig. 
Jeff Schroeder wrote:

>Michael asked:
>
>  
>
>>Once my system is up I notice that linux is only reporting
>>128MB of memory.  Why is this?
>>    
>>
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>How are you getting that number?  Check /proc/meminfo:
>
># cat /proc/meminfo 
>MemTotal:      1034796 kB
>
>There's a lot more information about swap, paging, and so forth.
>
>If /proc/meminfo reports 128MB, then that's what the kernel is seeing.  
>I just thought I'd throw that suggestion to you in case you're using 
>some other method to determine the memory and it's returning the wrong 
>value.
>
>HTH,
>Jeff
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