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Post by gonz0 on Nov 11, 2008 22:49:22 GMT 7
pleased to say i just booted ok with a 1gb Kingston KVR400X64C3A/1G on my thecus rouster none pro i need to install the software to check its reading 1GB though.
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Post by inkygti on Dec 18, 2008 2:36:30 GMT 7
pleased to say i just booted ok with a 1gb Kingston KVR400X64C3A/1G on my thecus rouster none pro i need to install the software to check its reading 1GB though. installed the same module and seems to be running fine. What do you use to check if the NAS see's 1gb of RAM?
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Post by gonz0 on Dec 18, 2008 4:08:57 GMT 7
theres a mod to do it, but you need a few other things installed and i havn't got round to it yet
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Post by gonz0 on Dec 18, 2008 4:29:15 GMT 7
ok just installed the needed mods and can confirm it works at 1gb, minus the onboard video im showing 900mb
Mem: 905760k total, 227168k used, 678592k free, 66592k buffers Swap: 1959800k total, 0k used, 1959800k free, 111800k cached
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Post by xtra on Dec 31, 2008 4:28:04 GMT 7
pleased to say i just booted ok with a 1gb Kingston KVR400X64C3A/1G on my thecus rouster none pro i need to install the software to check its reading 1GB though. installed the same module and seems to be running fine. What do you use to check if the NAS see's 1gb of RAM? I am now running the same RAM module also (Kingston KVR400X64C3A/1G). Everything booted OK and the 5200 modules that use webpages / graphics definitely seem to run faster. I do not know where to start to check the memory stats though. If someone knows how then please share and I will confirm my results. Regards Marty N5200BR / 5x 500MB / Raid 0 / FW 2.00.08
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Post by gonz0 on Dec 31, 2008 5:09:50 GMT 7
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Post by xtra on Dec 31, 2008 5:53:36 GMT 7
OK. I found & installed the UTILS module and then ran ' ut_vmstat ' and ended up with the following results:
swpd - 106516 free - 9240 buff - 60392 cache - 732820
this gives a total of approx. 908 MB
It did seem as thought the overall total increased from the start of my measuring with the UTILS module until I took a final reading. This was over a period of approx. 30 mins. The DDR module had been installed and the 5200 rebooted for approx. 80 mins at the time I started measuring.
The totals started at around 720 MB and slowly moved up to the 900 MB mark. I have no idea if this movement was an erroneous reading or did the DDR somehow need to 'propagate' into the system - and if that sounds like a totally brainless concept then please cut me the slack a clueless Linux user deserves...
Marty
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Post by xtra on Dec 31, 2008 6:02:28 GMT 7
Thanks gonz0. I did the digging to find the UTILS module while you were posting. I have never heard of the concept of 'memory leak' but to have a piece of silicon come up to capacity so slowly like that was kinda strange.
Thanks again.
Marty
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Post by gonz0 on Jan 2, 2009 7:28:42 GMT 7
run ut_top and it will show the mem at the top of the list like the paste i put up a few posts ago
not sure about the long boot, may have been creating the new swap file as its about 2gb
the 900 active ram is minus the VGA shared ram
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Post by xtra on Jan 3, 2009 4:57:23 GMT 7
run ut_top and it will show the mem at the top of the list like the paste i put up a few posts ago not sure about the long boot, may have been creating the new swap file as its about 2gb the 900 active ram is minus the VGA shared ram Gonz0, OK I did as you suggested and get pretty much the same results as you posted earlier in the thread: Mem: 905760k total, 896520k used, 9240k free, 75068k buffers Swap: 987832k total, 144228k used, 843604k free, 677376k cached So for anyone else wanting to give a DDR upgrade to their N5200 (non-Pro) these modules seem to do the business. Marty
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Post by gonz0 on Jan 4, 2009 3:47:19 GMT 7
i would love to know how it manages to use so much ram, greedy little beggers arnt they
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Post by xtra on Jan 5, 2009 6:46:15 GMT 7
Good point... I ran 'ut_top' again just now and got the following: Tasks: 180 total, 1 running, 179 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.4% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 905760k total, 896476k used, 9284k free, 60748k buffers Swap: 987832k total, 150560k used, 837272k free, 710596k cached How does 1 task (and I was not using the N5200 for anything during the test) manage to chomp up nearly all the UPGRADED memory? Is the OS in the N5200 working on a similar principle to the way M$ Vista 'reserves' a goodly slice of whatever RAM you have installed. www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vista-workshop,1775-5.html
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Post by gonz0 on Jan 5, 2009 8:46:57 GMT 7
905760 total, 896432 used 9328 free, 65712 buffers 1959800 swap, 20092 used, 1939708 free and 793084 buffer
just about the same here lol
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Post by drewy on Jan 6, 2009 3:48:57 GMT 7
i would imagine that the OS is using as much ram as possible to cache data, there;s no point in having it sit there unused when it could provide a performance boost
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Post by n5200twonky on Feb 5, 2009 2:28:37 GMT 7
I just upped the Memory of my N5200 (NOT PRO) to 1GB TS128MLD64V4J (transcend ) and It´s a BLAST !!!! Thanxx Everybody
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