[Wftl-lug] question on memory -- Total Memory vs Physical Memory
Jonathan Jesse
jjesse at iserv.net
Sat Aug 18 11:50:01 EDT 2007
On Saturday 18 August 2007 10:44:30 Marcelino Mata wrote:
> Please also give me more hardware information with this command:
>
> lspci -v > /tmp/lspci.txt
>
> Attache the file /tmp/lspci.txt to response....
>
> If computer is Dell/HP or whatever, please supply model name....if whitebox
> computer and you know motherboard make/model, please let me know....this
> information should be in lspci but just in case...
>
> Thanks,
> Marcelino
>
> On 8/17/07, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 17 August 2007 22:17:57 Marcelino Mata wrote:
> > > What distro and kernel are you running?...Seems to me your having
> > > kernel issue...I have seen some pre-compiled to only recognize 1 or 2GB
> > > RAM.
> >
> > You
> >
> > > can recompile your own with larger memory settings or pick "large
> >
> > memory"
> >
> > > kernel from your distro's pool/respository. Can't remember setting off
> >
> > the
> >
> > > top of my head since I don't recompile kernels very often....you can
> >
> > tell
> >
> > > I'm not gentoo user :-)
> > >
> > > Marcelino
> > >
> > > On 8/17/07, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> > > > I think I asked this question to the list earlier in regards to 4
> > > > gigs
> >
> > of
> >
> > > > memory. So I have it installed and am wondering about what I am
> >
> > seeing
> >
> > > > when
> > > > I look at KInfoCenter and see that I have 2.02 GB free of Total
> > > > Memory and 51.19 MB free of Physical Memory.
> > > >
> > > > Total physical memory shows 1.98 GB does that mean that my system is
> >
> > only
> >
> > > > reconginizing 2 Gigs of RAM? When I look at the BIOS it shows 4 GIG
> >
> > of
> >
> > > > RAM...
> > > >
> > > > THoughts?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > JOnathan
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> > Thasnks Marcelino,
> >
> > I am using Kubuntu 7.04 (the Feisty Fawn)
> > uname -r shows 2.6.20-16-generic
> >
> > I'm attaching what Kinfocenter shows
> >
> > JOnathan
> >
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Marcelino,
Thanks so much for helping me out w/ this. I have a Dell Latitude D820 w/ 2
slots of RAM. In the previous configuration I had two 1 Gig sticks of RAM,
now i have two 2 gigs of RAM. When I take a look at the BIOS it says I have
4 Gigs of RAM.
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: ed000000-efefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at efffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: ecf00000-ecffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=09, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: ece00000-ecefffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0d, subordinate=0e, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: ecc00000-ecdfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000e01fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at bf60 [size=32]
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at bf40 [size=32]
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at bf20 [size=32]
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=07, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: ecb00000-ecbfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000088000000-000000008bffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
I/O ports at 10c0 [size=32]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 7400 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at ee000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at ef000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, stepping, slow devsel, latency 168, IRQ 19
Memory at ecb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=03, secondary=04, subordinate=07, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 88000000-8bfff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 8c000000-8ffff000
I/O window 0: 00002000-000020ff
I/O window 1: 00002400-000024ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at ecbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at ecbfe800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01cc
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at ecef0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1020
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at ecfff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
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