Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

[Geoff Reidy <greendog@pacific.net.au>]

Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> andy wrote:
>> Thanks Geoff. I had also read that during the course of my earlier
>> research on this issue. But ...
>>
>> :~$ uname -r
>> 2.6.18-3-686
>>
>> Viola! 686 and still no 1GB mem recognised, only 3/4s (776400KB) of
>> it, as seen below:
>>
>> :~$ free
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:        776400     732580      43820          0      36980     317528
>> -/+ buffers/cache:     378072     398328
>> Swap:      2931852         92    2931760
>>
>> It would appear that I'm looking at either just accepting this fact or
>> will have to recompile my kernel, which I am a tad phobic about to be
>> frank.
> 
> Are you sure you have 1GB? What does BIOS report when you restart your
> computer?
> 
> 

You can also install the dmidecode package and do something like this as
root:

# dmidecode |grep 'Installed Size' |grep MB

Which gives me:

        Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection)
        Installed Size: 256 MB (Single-bank Connection)
        Installed Size: 512 MB (Double-bank Connection)