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Dewdman42
Jan 13, 2018Virtuoso
where's the memory?
I just received my new RN524X, which is supposed to come with 4GB of ram, but everythign I run on the console is reporting only 2gb of memory. what gives?
/home/sjs/Bin# vmstat -s
2003604 K total memory
1903696 K used memory
1144912 K active memory
620772 K inactive memory
99908 K free memory
1516 K buffer memory
882112 K swap cache
523708 K total swap
44 K used swap
523664 K free swap
36145 non-nice user cpu ticks
5678 nice user cpu ticks
223560 system cpu ticks
2770064 idle cpu ticks
27484 IO-wait cpu ticks
0 IRQ cpu ticks
5220 softirq cpu ticks
0 stolen cpu ticks
230344 pages paged in
5294421 pages paged out
0 pages swapped in
11 pages swapped out
103239964 interrupts
254656799 CPU context switches
1515875326 boot time
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- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
I see this on my RN524x
root@RN524:~# vmstat -s 3935832 K total memory 534712 K used memory 234724 K active memory 113276 K inactive memory 3401120 K free memory 2892 K buffer memory 282040 K swap cache 523708 K total swap 0 K used swap 523708 K free swap 573 non-nice user cpu ticks 4 nice user cpu ticks 797 system cpu ticks 21783 idle cpu ticks 4413 IO-wait cpu ticks 0 IRQ cpu ticks 5 softirq cpu ticks 0 stolen cpu ticks 266585 pages paged in 29245 pages paged out 0 pages swapped in 0 pages swapped out 66422 interrupts 203558 CPU context switches 1515893325 boot time 6413 forksI suggest you contact support at my.netgear.com, as there is a hardware issue with your unit.
Note that opening the case would void the warranty, so I recommend not attempting to do that.
- Dewdman42Virtuoso
On closer inspection, I think the vendor sent me an RN424 (I paid for RN524X). arggggghhh...
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