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hi I've on my Debian Sarge server RAM Memory from 1 GB to 2 GB upgraded. but free shows only 1 GB: Code: # free total used free shared buffers ...
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    Memory Upgrade

    hi

    I've on my Debian Sarge server RAM Memory from 1 GB to 2 GB upgraded.

    but free shows only 1 GB:
    Code:
    # free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        905404     412220     493184          0      13164     166180
-/+ buffers/cache:     232876     672528
Swap:      2931820          0    2931820

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    howto solve this problem ?

    kind regards
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    Re: Memory Upgrade

    Quote Originally Posted by cc
    hi

    I've on my Debian Sarge server RAM Memory from 1 GB to 2 GB upgraded.

    but free shows only 1 GB:
    Code:
    # free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        905404     412220     493184          0      13164     166180
-/+ buffers/cache:     232876     672528
Swap:      2931820          0    2931820

# uname -a
Linux server.domain.net 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
    howto solve this problem ?

    kind regards
    cc
    Debian is kinda smart in a sense, it takes a portion of your unused memory and converts it to system cache, don't worry it's not a memory leak or anything, as you open apps it up will adjust itself, as long as it is showing the TOTAL amount of your upgraded memory there is nothing to worry about.
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    You probably don't have highmem enabled in your kernel. You can check by doing this
    Code:
    dmesg | grep Memory
    which, with my 2GB gives me this
    Code:
    Memory: 2074708k/2096384k available
(2134k kernel code, 20624k reserved, 626k data, 192k init,
1178880k highmem)
    If you don't have highmem enabled, you'll need to recompile your kernel.
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