On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 14:15 +0000, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I > >>have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and the Gnome > >>system monitor 884 MB. > >> > >>I have to say that my kernel is not 4GB enabled: so far I thought > >>that 1GB was smaller that 4GB. > > In fact, according to the help message provided by the kernel, 1GB is > on the edge: so it is not so clear to me wether the kernel must be > 4GB enabled.
The fact that you see more RAM when you enable the 4GB means that 1GB is 'above the edge', so to speak. I'm still curious as to why the 'edge' is where it is, though! > >There's something magic about that 905MB line - a 1GB RAM machine of > >ours showed that amount as total RAM when on a non-4GB and non-64GB > >kernel. Don't know why exactly it's 905MB, but that ties up with > >what I saw. It's not sharing with AGP memory, because my system > >didn't have that. > > > >Once upgraded to a 4GB kernel, the full 1GB was visible. > > > >Dave. > > I am rebuilding my kernel with this option. Some sources say that simply installing an i686 kernel rather than a i386 one will help you to see 1GB. However, that doesn't quite make sense. Your rebuild should do the trick, of course. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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