sleeping processes and swap

[Michael Havens]

lshw? List Hardware? That's a new one! I always thought there was a  
command like this! Thanks for sharing. I had to apt-get it but here is  
what the relevant section says.....

      *-memory
           description: System Memory
           physical id: 21
           slot: System board or motherboard
           size: 384MB
           capacity: 512MB
         *-bank:0
              description: DIMM EDRAM
              physical id: 0
              slot: BANK_0
              size: 64MB
         *-bank:1
              description: DIMM EDRAM
              physical id: 1
              slot: BANK_1
              size: 64MB
         *-bank:2
              description: DIMM EDRAM
              physical id: 2
              slot: BANK_2
              size: 64MB
         *-bank:3
              description: DIMM EDRAM
              physical id: 3
              slot: BANK_3
              size: 64MB
         *-bank:4
              description: DIMM EDRAM
              physical id: 4
              slot: BANK_4
              size: 128MB
         *-bank:5
              description: DIMM EDRAM [empty]
              physical id: 5
              slot: BANK_5

Hmmmmm... looking at the output it seems as if I had a dishonest salesman!  
I bought 3 128MB chips (so he said). I don't know what this 'slot 5' is.  
All of the RAM slots have something in them and there are only 3. It must  
be something to do with the manufacturing and onboard memory.

I really appreciate your guys help.

3852645 KB =  total memory
768 M = system memory + banks 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. Is my system really not  
accessing all of it's memory?

bmike1 at 1[~]$ top
top - 07:04:21 up 48 min,  2 users,  load average: 3.86, 2.94, 2.46
Tasks:  86 total,   4 running,  82 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 66.4% us, 29.6% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.3% id,  0.3% wa,  2.9% hi,  0.5%  
si
Mem:    385264k total,   356868k used,    28396k free,    14972k buffers
Swap:  1025000k total,        0k used,  1025000k free,   172972k cached


On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:31:58 -0700, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure your system cannot use 2 or 3 sticks of 256 MB?  While I  
> would
> not suggest you buy them for that machine, maybe we could find some in a
> parts bin somewhere.
>
> If you run sudo lshw and look for the memory section it might look  
> something
> like:
>      *-memory
>           description: System Memory
>           physical id: 36
>           slot: System board or motherboard
>           size: 1GB
>         *-bank:0
>              description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
>              product: PartNum0
>              vendor: Manufacturer0
>              physical id: 0
>              serial: SerNum0
>              slot: DIMM0
>              size: 512MB
>              width: 64 bits
>         *-bank:1
>              description: DIMM [empty]
>              product: PartNum1
>              vendor: Manufacturer1
>              physical id: 1
>              serial: SerNum1
>              slot: DIMM1
>         *-bank:2
>              description: DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
>              product: PartNum2
>              vendor: Manufacturer2
>              physical id: 2
>              serial: SerNum2
>              slot: DIMM2
>              size: 512MB
>              width: 64 bits
>         *-bank:3
>              description: DIMM [empty]
>              product: PartNum3
>              vendor: Manufacturer3
>              physical id: 3
>              serial: SerNum3
>              slot: DIMM3
> which would say what kind of slots you have (what kind of memory to look
> for).
>
> On 11/28/06, Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:39:21 -0700, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> > The only way he could be maxxed on ram is if he has 3 slots with 128Mb
>> > memory in each.  If he has 2 slots or 4 then he has to be running
>> > different
>> > sized sticks in one or more and can't be maxxed out.  If his  
>> motherboard
>> > cannot handle over 384 MB it has to be from the 1980's or so and is
>> > probably
>> > a PII or less so almost anything graphic can eat the machine using
>> > X-windows.
>> >
>> > Michael, please open a terminal and issue these 2 commands and post  
>> the
>> > output here:
>> >      cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name
>> >      cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
>>
>> it is an AMD K6 3D processor
>> total memory: 385264
>> free memory:  6660
>>
>> Your first guess is correct..... 3 slots with 128MB..... you're good!
>> :~)MIKE(~:
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