Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:18:27 +0000
andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
Although the man page will identify as a bug that the info in
dmidecode can be completely wrong (!), this does show that I have
1024MB of RAM - i.e. 1GB. So, somewhere betwixt BIOS and fired up
Etch I have lost recognition for 250MB-odd of memory.
Thanks for your thoughts. On a note that might be related, I have
just watched an *.avi video from the hard-drive using Totem and was
drawing 100% CPU, with 42% of memory in cache. Perhaps this is
normal ?
My only strange experiences with Etch thus far are:
* not having the full 1 GB stick recognised,
* the heavy use of CPU,
* the overflow into swap, and
* the occasional hard freeze when burning DVDs after converting them
from non-DVD formats
Perhaps these issues are related? Could I have a bad stick of RAM? Is
it software? Will the Knoppix and memtest86 CDs you mention help sort
out which is which?
Thanks for your thoughts.
A
You still didn't answer any questions about the video card. Maybe you
have an on-board chipset with shared mem?
Regards,
Andrei
Sorry Andrei, that e-mail
must have slipped past my radar. The graphics card is 128MB ATI Radeon
X200 Express Graphics
built-in. I think that it is a
32-bit and that memory is prefetchable [size=256MB]. If this means that
it shares memory from the RAM chip, then yes, this would account for
the missing RAM.
A
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