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First, Thank You all for your replies!!!! Second, I switched from the 64 bit version to the 32 bit version. While trying the 64 bit version I had difficulty with the website used for my online courses. It requires JRE 1.5 or greater. I have had no problems in the past with the site on the 32 bit version using Epiphany. For whatever reason, Firefox just doesn't seem to communicate to the site that I have JRE 1.6. On the 64 bit version Epiphany simply crashed every time I tried to login. Finally, I ran some of the commands given here in previous responses and it appears that even the 32 bit version is using all 8Gb of RAM!!! [root@localhost tom]# more /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8307812 kB MemFree: 7393380 kB Buffers: 36400 kB Cached: 453220 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 536964 kB Inactive: 299776 kB HighTotal: 7470016 kB HighFree: 6653104 kB LowTotal: 837796 kB LowFree: 740276 kB SwapTotal: 8458180 kB SwapFree: 8458180 kB Dirty: 8700 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 347112 kB Mapped: 97340 kB Slab: 33964 kB SReclaimable: 24768 kB SUnreclaim: 9196 kB PageTables: 5556 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 12612084 kB Committed_AS: 684696 kB VmallocTotal: 116728 kB VmallocUsed: 51632 kB VmallocChunk: 59380 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 20480 kB DirectMap2M: 897024 kB [root@localhost tom]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8113 958 7154 0 39 473 -/+ buffers/cache: 445 7667 Swap: 8259 0 8259 [root@localhost tom]# That being said, I will continue my move to Linux. I will also be searching the forums for a resolution to my lack of sound problem on my other system. I have already spotted a post for the c8738 sound card and will be looking further. Thank you all!!!!!

Thanks John! I was under the impression that your swap space should be set to the same size as the amount of memory installed at the time of installation, or maybe what you dream of one day having installed. Fortunately I am using a DROBO for most of my storage. It would be nice to get a "smaller" drive these days since I don't really plan on needing all of the space that I have on this one. Tom

No problem! Here you go! [root@localhost tom]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8008 1067 6940 0 21 447 -/+ buffers/cache: 598 7409 Swap: 8259 0 8259 [root@localhost tom]#

I tried another command that I found through the links given and here is the result: [root@localhost tom]# more /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8200512 kB MemFree: 6992660 kB Buffers: 23284 kB Cached: 510780 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 773452 kB Inactive: 310204 kB SwapTotal: 8458180 kB SwapFree: 8458180 kB Dirty: 284 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 549596 kB Mapped: 116776 kB Slab: 42040 kB SReclaimable: 28124 kB SUnreclaim: 13916 kB PageTables: 18412 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 12558436 kB Committed_AS: 884008 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 96420 kB VmallocChunk: 34359641083 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 46016 kB DirectMap2M: 8341504 kB [root@localhost tom]# Does this mean that the system is actually using and seeing my 8Gb of RAM but not "reporting" it to the hardware management tool of the Mandriva Control Center? Thanks again!!!

Here is the output, [tom@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost tom]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.27.5-server-2mnb #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 16:22:43 EST 2008 x86_64AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Dual Core Processor GNU/Linux [root@localhost tom]#

I recently installed the 64-bit version of Mandriva 2009. I was expecting it to register all 8 Gb of RAM that is installed on my system. Instead it only shows 4 Gb. Does anyone have any idea why? I installed 64-bit Kubuntu and it saw all of my RAM. Please help. Thank you!