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Re: Debian showing less RAM



Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2012 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan:
> i was using i686 kernel now i just updated amd64 it worked
>  aptitude install linux-image-2.6-amd64
> 
> root@lion:~# free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers    
> cached Mem:       8134920      83372    8051548          0       2272 
>     17392 -/+ buffers/cache:      63708    8071212
> Swap:     15623088          0   15623088

Do you have 32-bit user space? "file /bin/ls" tells for example

Using a 64-Bit kernel with 32-bit user space can create problems. I had it 
once that X.org with Intel drivers tended to crash badly which was gone 
after I switched to a 32-bit kernel again.

So I suggest you either use 32-bit bigmem kernel or reinstall with 64-bit. 
I´d recommend the second option considering that your machine has 8 GiB.

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