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 di…

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.

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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? Inc…

[image] 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 …

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 …

[image] anon33601770: For example: inxi -Fazy That would have provided much more info but oh well … [image] 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.

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