On Sat, 2 May 2009 10:26:45 -0400 (EDT) m...@neidorff.com wrote: > Hi all, > > My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was > installed, I had 2 Gig of ram. > > I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the memory that I could > allocate to the guest was insufficient (too much swapping) so I added 2 > Gig more of ram (same brand and model of ram as the original). The memory > is recognized at boot just fine. >
If this is not inside your virtual machine then linux sees only 1GB of ram for some reason. I thought that it should recognize 2 so this is strange. In any case, if you want to use 4gb of ram you should use a 64bit kernel (amd64 kernel). Try intalling that and see if it helps. It should run with the rest of the system running 32bit at least as a start. > This is the contents of /proc/meminfo > MemTotal: 906792 kB > MemFree: 349352 kB > Buffers: 101224 kB > Cached: 203496 kB > SwapCached: 0 kB > Active: 203744 kB > Inactive: 185136 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 906792 kB > LowFree: 349352 kB > SwapTotal: 2931820 kB > SwapFree: 2931820 kB > Dirty: 404 kB > Writeback: 0 kB > AnonPages: 84180 kB > Mapped: 50976 kB > Slab: 151092 kB > PageTables: 1716 kB > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB > Bounce: 0 kB > CommitLimit: 3385216 kB > Committed_AS: 218696 kB > VmallocTotal: 122576 kB > VmallocUsed: 47516 kB > VmallocChunk: 70344 kB > > As I understand what I am reading, I have (about) 1 Gig allocated as > system memory and (about) 3 Gig allocated as swap. How do I change this > so that I can increase the amount of ram allocated to the virtual machine? > I tried just increasing the allocation in the configuration of the > virtual machine, but the virtual machine just hung. > > Thanks, > > Mark > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
