Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 12:23 -0700, Mark G.B. wrote: > Package: general > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I recently installed 4x1GiB sticks of DDR RAM into my PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 GHz. > Apple indicates the maximum amount of RAM supported is indeed 8GiB. I'm inferring from this that you have the DP+ with 8 RAM slots, and you have upgraded from 4 * 1 GiB to 8 * 1 GiB installed. Is that right? > The system is fully usable, it runs without problems in any area, pretty much, > but I would like to know if it is using the full 8GiB since in system monitor > it states only 5.8 GiB total are registered. > > Please, if you are able to direct me, or fix, thanks. There would certainly be > a performance boost in say things like Kdenlive for me if the missing ~2GiB > were restored. > > > P.S. I've attached output of 'cat /proc/meminfo' for reference. This is quite surprising. It is normal for the system firmware to reserve some amount of memory that is then unavailable to Linux, but this is a very large amount. Please also send the kernel boot messages, which might help explain what's going on. (We probably still won't be able to solve this, though, as there are few developers still interested in PowerMac systems.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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