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From: Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 18:21:49 +0100
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Subject: Re: Alpine 3.18 x86-32 not detecting all RAM
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 16:22, Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 17:23 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> > It is working well but only detects 854MB of RAM. [snip] the
> > `dmidecode` tool sees 2GB.
>
> Hi Liam,
>
> what is "it"? You are running dmidecode by an Alpine session?

Correct. The `dmidecode` tool sees the correct amount of memory.

The `free`, `top`, `htop` commands and Xfce task manager all think the
machine has 854MB RAM.

So it is as if some RAM has been stolen by a RAMdisk or something.

> I checked my x86_64 Alpine by an Alpine session running hwinfo.

I'll install that and try.

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