John E. Perry wrote:
PS: ksensors says I have only 796M of my 2G ram in use, and 676M of my 2G swap in use. Why should any swap be in use?
John, Like Rajko suggested, from a terminal, take a look at 'free -tm' and then follow up (as root) with 'dmidecode' and 'hwinfo --memory'. You should have 2G available since you are not running up against the 4G barrier where RAM below is needed for device address space. If you only have 2G of memory mapped into processor address space, then there is 2G available for device address space and no chance you have filled that up with your hardware (unless of course you have 2 1G video cards in your box ;-) With a 2G install, you should see something close to this after a fresh reboot: 21:19 bonza~> free -tm total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2027 229 1798 0 15 96 -/+ buffers/cache: 117 1910 Swap: 2125 0 2125 Total: 4153 229 3923 After running for a while, you will see something similar to this: 21:23 zion~> free -tm total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2026 1454 571 0 335 469 -/+ buffers/cache: 650 1376 Swap: 439 0 439 Total: 2465 1454 1010 Note the second line -/+ buffers/cache under the "free" column and you will see the amount of memory that has been used in the past but is now free for reallocation as needed. So even though I show 1454 used above, of that 1376 is available for reallocation. Regardless, you should see your full 2G, and if not, it might be worth a trip through the bios to see if there is any way to account for the lost memory. If not, then I would reseat the dimms, check again, the run memtest to see if I could uncover any other problems. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org