On Saturday 02 May 2009 12:54 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,02.May.09, 10:26:45, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was > > installed, I had 2 Gig of ram. > > > > I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the memory that I could > > allocate to the guest was insufficient (too much swapping) so I added 2 > > Gig more of ram (same brand and model of ram as the original). The > > memory is recognized at boot just fine. > > Do you mean by the BIOS? > > > This is the contents of /proc/meminfo > > MemTotal: 906792 kB > > ... > > > As I understand what I am reading, I have (about) 1 Gig allocated as > > system memory and (about) 3 Gig allocated as swap. How do I change this > > If I'm not terribly mistaken Linux only sees those 906792 kB of memory > (at least on my machine it shows the entire 2GB I have installed). > > What does 'dmesg | grep Memory:' show after boot? > > Regards, > Andrei To answer your questions: #1: Yes, I mean that the memory is reported by the bios.
#2: $dmesg | grep Memory Memory: 901968k/917504k available (1501k kernel code, 14908k reserved,601k data, 256k init, 0k highmem) Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
