Dell XPS 13 System Memory Issues (Probably caused by Intel HD3000)

Lorenzo Villani lorenzo at villani.me
Thu Aug 30 17:39:53 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 17:08 +0200, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
> HI
> 
> 800 M is a bit rough. What kind of services you have that actively
> runs, and stores in mem or tmpfs?
> Did you run memtest?
> Bios settings?

The BIOS shows "4096 MB" of "extended memory" [1]
Memtest86+ reports 3407 MB of memory [2]
Whilst `free` and /proc/meminfo list 3275 MB of available system memory.

I normally wouldn't mind a deviation of ~100 MB between what's written
on the box and what the OS sees but ~800 MB is enough to be noticeable,
especially when using Google Chrome with lots of tabs open.

1: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8255353/IMG_20120830_192101.jpg
2: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8255353/IMG_20120830_192011.jpg




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