New to Proxmox - Missing Ram

panahasi

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Hi All,

I've just installed Proxmox for the first time.

I am having an issue with datacenter only displaying half of the ram I have installed, I have checked the Bios which is showing correctly, I've even changed the ram out.

I'm not using any storage, are there any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.
 
Hi,
please try to check if your system correctly detects your RAM modules.
dmidecode --type 17 should give you some information.
 
root@pve:~# dmidecode --type 17
# dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 3.2.1 present.
# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 3.2.0 are not
# fully supported by this version of dmidecode.

Handle 0x0015, DMI type 17, 40 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x000E
Error Information Handle: 0x0014
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 4096 MB
Form Factor: DIMM
Set: None
Locator: DIMM 0
Bank Locator: P0 CHANNEL A
Type: DDR4
Type Detail: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered)
Speed: 2133 MT/s
Manufacturer: Unknown
Serial Number: 00000000
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: CMK16GX4M4A2666C16
Rank: 1
Configured Memory Speed: 2133 MT/s
Minimum Voltage: 1.2 V
Maximum Voltage: 1.2 V
Configured Voltage: 1.2 V

Handle 0x0018, DMI type 17, 40 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x000E
Error Information Handle: 0x0017
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 4096 MB
Form Factor: DIMM
Set: None
Locator: DIMM 1
Bank Locator: P0 CHANNEL A
Type: DDR4
Type Detail: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered)
Speed: 2133 MT/s
Manufacturer: Unknown
Serial Number: 00000000
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: CMK16GX4M4A2666C16
Rank: 1
Configured Memory Speed: 2133 MT/s
Minimum Voltage: 1.2 V
Maximum Voltage: 1.2 V
Configured Voltage: 1.2 V

Handle 0x001B, DMI type 17, 40 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x000E
Error Information Handle: 0x001A
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 4096 MB
Form Factor: DIMM
Set: None
Locator: DIMM 0
Bank Locator: P0 CHANNEL B
Type: DDR4
Type Detail: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered)
Speed: 2133 MT/s
Manufacturer: Unknown
Serial Number: 00000000
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: CMK16GX4M4A2666C16
Rank: 1
Configured Memory Speed: 2133 MT/s
Minimum Voltage: 1.2 V
Maximum Voltage: 1.2 V
Configured Voltage: 1.2 V

Handle 0x001E, DMI type 17, 40 bytes
Memory Device
Array Handle: 0x000E
Error Information Handle: 0x001D
Total Width: 64 bits
Data Width: 64 bits
Size: 4096 MB
Form Factor: DIMM
Set: None
Locator: DIMM 1
Bank Locator: P0 CHANNEL B
Type: DDR4
Type Detail: Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered)
Speed: 2133 MT/s
Manufacturer: Unknown
Serial Number: 00000000
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: CMK16GX4M4A2666C16
Rank: 1
Configured Memory Speed: 2133 MT/s
Minimum Voltage: 1.2 V
Maximum Voltage: 1.2 V
Configured Voltage: 1.2 V

root@pve:~#

Thank you for the help so far
 
your provided output shows 4x 4GB Memory modules.
My counter-question would be:
  • Are you expecting more?
  • What should be in there?
  • What does your BIOS show?
 
Looking through the summary half of my ram is showing as swap which I do not want, I only have 4 containers and 3 VM's. I've tried removing swap but it doesn't then go back into normal ram.

Any suggestions
 
Please post the output of free -h.
Do you use some ram based swap device? Please post also the output of swapon --show.
You can disable all swap by running swapoff -a. This will however not remove the swap partition.
Are we really talking about the ram or are you referring to the storage memory?
It seems strange to me that you would have half of your ram reserved as swap device, especially since you stated this is a fresh install.
 
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.7Gi 1.5Gi 4.7Gi 60Mi 1.5Gi 5.9Gi
Swap: 7.0Gi 0B 7.0Gi

So is there no swap to change the partition?
 

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