Re: Debian showing less RAM
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:52:49PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> i am using debian 6.0.4. i have 8GB of ram installed in a server 2GB x
>> 4. bios also shows 8 GB.
>>
>> however top only shows 2gb or RAM
>>
>> top - 15:48:29 up 16 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
>> Tasks: 90 total, 1 running, 89 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.6%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
>> Mem: 2273280k total, 79768k used, 2193512k free, 2292k buffers
>> Swap: 15623088k total, 0k used, 15623088k free, 45456k cached
>
> What kernel are you using? Either you have one that isn't enable to see
> the extra ram or, as has happened on the list in the past, you have bad
> modules :)
>
Thanks ....... kernel was the problem.
>>
>> Secondly.........
>>
>> root@lion:~# df -h
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/pve--vg-root
>> 442G 550M 419G 1% /
>>
>> i dont know if its normal but things are confusing me a bit. i have
>> working space of 442G used 550MB and available 419MB there almost
>> 22GB is missing.
>
> 5% of 442GB = 22.2GB. So that's your "reserved" portion.
>
can i recover this reserved portion ?
>
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