dmidecode

[Aurélien Naldi]

>> 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.

Not much to add, you have 8GB of memory in the system, just as you should :)

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Aurélien Naldi