dmidecode

[Kaushal Shriyan]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Aurélien Naldi
<aurelien.naldi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> root at hostii3:~:~# apt-get install linux-image-bigmem
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Couldn't find package linux-image-bigmem
>> root at hostii3:~:~# apt-cache search bigmem
>> root at hostii3:~:~#
>>
>> Please suggest.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> depending on the ubuntu version, it may be called -server or -pae
> BTW, if you are running a 64bit install, it should just work with the
> default kernel (AFAIK).
>
> I'm not familiar with dmidecode output, but it is supposed to be about
> hardware capabilities, not software ones. Are you sure this is the
> global limit of the system and not the capacity of a single memory
> slot ?
>

free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          8001       7955         45          0          0       7812
-/+ buffers/cache:        143       7857
Swap:         4761         42       4719

Please suggest.

Thanks,

Kaushal