0006217: total amount of RAM not detected

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006217	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2020-03-23 03:49	2025-07-14 09:38

Reporter	13699390	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	2020.1

Summary	0006217: total amount of RAM not detected
Description	hello,I am having a problem and the problem is that i have 4 GB of RAM but in kali when i try to see my total amount of RAM it shows that i have 2 GB of RAM installed please help i tried removing and reinserting RAM but it was no help

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2020-03-23 03:49	13699390	New Issue
2020-03-23 08:25	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2020-03-23 08:25	rhertzog	Status	new => closed
2020-03-23 08:25	rhertzog	Resolution	open => no change required
2020-03-23 08:25	rhertzog	Note Added: 0012511
2025-07-14 09:16	g0tmi1k	Priority	urgent => normal
2025-07-14 09:38	g0tmi1k	Severity	crash => minor

rhertzog 2020-03-23 08:25 administrator ~0012511	It's unlikely that you are hitting a bug, you are likely doing something wrong like using a 32 bit image instead of 64 bit one. Or having a non-PAE kernel on a 32 bit installation. Please go ask for help on forums.kali.org on on IRC. Thank you.