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Posted: **Wed May 16, 2012 2:32 pm**

Hi there,

today I've recieved my raspberry-pi

So I've put ARCH-linux(the image from 29-04-2012) on it, so far everthing is working fine, but it seems my device has only 128mb RAM or is there some configuration I have to change?(using the pi as a server I don't need my grafic-chip so there doesn't need to be any memory reserved for it)

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 cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:         125004 kB
MemFree:           14116 kB
Buffers:            3112 kB
Cached:            83336 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:            47960 kB
Inactive:          51640 kB
Active(anon):      13340 kB
Inactive(anon):    16376 kB
Active(file):      34620 kB
Inactive(file):    35264 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:             0 kB
SwapFree:              0 kB
Dirty:               424 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         13204 kB
Mapped:            23152 kB
Shmem:             16564 kB
Slab:               8404 kB
SReclaimable:       3556 kB
SUnreclaim:         4848 kB
KernelStack:         504 kB
PageTables:         1028 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:       62500 kB
Committed_AS:     169456 kB
VmallocTotal:     253952 kB
VmallocUsed:        3704 kB
VmallocChunk:     246316 kB

I don't know if that helps to identify the chip which is on?

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 cat /proc/cpuinfo 
Processor	: ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS	: 697.95
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x0
CPU part	: 0xb76
CPU revision	: 7

Hardware	: BCM2708
Revision	: 0002
Serial		: 00000000f377fdf5

I would be glad if somebody can point me in the right direction.

Edit: Why does any post from me need to be aproved by a moderator?

Thx,
Ralf

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2012 2:56 pm**

Hi Ralf,

If you look at the following link: http://elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup then you will find all the information you need.

In short, to change the split of the RAM between CPU/GPU you need to choose an appropriate start.elf

The options that are available are listed in the section "setting up the boot partition".

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2012 3:02 pm**

thank you very much, that I could have found myself

Posted: **Wed May 16, 2012 3:11 pm**

Ralfk wrote:Hi there,
Edit: Why does any post from me need to be aproved by a moderator?
Thx,
Ralf

Because new posters are vetted to make sure they are not spamming or general troublemakers. Once you have been passed you can post without moderation.

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