Only a few ram read

[Linuxftw]

Hi manjaro is only reading around 817 megs out of the 2gb that came with my laptop and while most thigns run ok i have noticed that the less ram read has shown a fair amount of performance drop compared to before, I would like to verify wether it is a hardware issue ie a ram chip in the ram stick died or if its a software issue and I could be wrong and maybe how it could be fixed? Thx edit: I did noticee a performance drop undernwindows toobefire changing is but still would like a double check, however I do still get better speed under Manjaro than windows but still less than usual so just wanted to knw.

[linux-aarhus]

No operating system can make use of more than the system has to offer.

Check the system firmware on boot - the first page usually shows the RAM found.

[andreas85]

Or use

inxi

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[Linuxftw]

My laptop is an early 2008 MacBook so I’m a bit unsure how I would access that information however when I ran screen fetch it showed me that only 817mb out of the available 2gb of ram was being used although do you think if I put the ram from another machine I had put ram in might fix the issue? Incase it is a chip that might have died on the ram ? When I open my laptop later I will send a screenshot of what the screen fetch mentions. Ty

[Nachlese]

@Linuxftw

I will send a screenshot of what the screen fetch mentions.

Please don’t! post screenshots - if you are a new member, you are not allowed to anyway …
Screenshots have their use cases - but this is not one of them.
run inxi instead.

For example:
inxi -Fazy
in a terminal
and copy/paste the output
highlight it
and format it using the button </> above.

[Linuxftw]

Ok ty

[Linuxftw]

OS: Manjaro 21.2.4 Qonos
██████████████████ ████████ Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.15.25-1-MANJARO
██████████████████ ████████ Uptime: 43m
████████ ████████ Packages: 1229
████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: bash 5.1.16
████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 1280x800
████████ ████████ ████████ DE: Xfce4
████████ ████████ ████████ WM: Xfwm4
████████ ████████ ████████ WM Theme: Cloudy-Solid-SoftBlue-Light
████████ ████████ ████████ GTK Theme: Cloudy-Solid-SoftBlue-Light [GTK2]
████████ ████████ ████████ Icon Theme: RetroWave-Icons
████████ ████████ ████████ Font: Noto Sans 10
████████ ████████ ████████ Disk: 20G / 111G (19%)
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo T8100 @ 2x 2.1GHz
GPU: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM (CL)
RAM: 837MiB / 1957MiB

(I wrote screenfetch in terminal because while not much more inxi showed ram than screenfetch so I was a little confused, but here is the copy and pasted information )

[Nachlese]

@Nachlese

For example:
inxi -Fazy

That would have provided much more info but oh well …

@Linuxftw

RAM: 837MiB / 1957MiB

You have 2GB of Ram with 837MiB of it used - which is perfectly normal.
That is how I read what you chose to post.

[Linuxftw]

ok, tysm.