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Re: Debian showing less RAM



On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
thanks for sharing your experience, i am doing it right aways since i
can not take any risk becuase this system will be put in production.

Thanks.......................

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