Hello all, thanks in advance for any advice you might have.
I just got an HP ENVY dv7, with an intel corei7 and 8 gigs of ram. I installed 64bit Mint Maya on it and completely wiped out Windows. After noticing it was running a bit sluggish I found that mint is only picking up, less than one gig of ram..
I'm hoping that this is just a solved issue that I wasn't able to find anywhere, but so far I haven't had any luck.. The Mem is showing up in the bios just fine, but not in mint. Anyone know why this would be happening?
Thanks a ton in advance!
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Let's start with installing the PAE kernel, because I think you have the default one still? The default kernel would be able to see only 4 GiB RAM, and perhaps something is causing it to see even less. The PAE kernel can see up to 64 GiB RAM.
To install it, open a terminal and run the following two commands:
sudo apt-get install linux-image-686-pae linux-headers-686-pae
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-headers-686-pae is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Unable to locate package linux-image-686-pae
E: Package 'linux-headers-686-pae' has no installation candidate
Is there a typo or something? Maybe a different repo?
Aw yes I still got it. Enjoy the new install, it should run a lot better now
You might want to consider installing Linux Mint 64-bit in the future, instead of the 32-bit install you did now. Though 64-bit will use some more memory for each task, it will be faster for certain tasks as well (especially mathematical actions on large data sets; like archiving, encrypting, video transcoding, rendering, and so on). 64-bit wouldn't have had this problem either
I see. You said and thought you installed a 64 bit version but inxi indicates a 32 bit version. i686. You wanted the x64 version. If this is a new install, I'd download the correct 64 bit version and do a clean install now rather than waiting. I think you and your system would be happier.