Re: memory recognition

2008-05-05 Thread ChadDavis
I installed the bigmem kernel ( 2.6.24-1-686 ). Thought this is the same kernel version that my system has been running on, when I try to boot to the bigmem kernel, the boot process creeps along at an incredibly slow rate and appears to hang during dev assignment / configuration, though it seems t

Re: memory recognition

2008-05-02 Thread | Dominique H. Schramm (ML) |
Hi, ChadDavis schrieb: I have 8gb of memory, bios sees it. Lenny only sees 3.2 gb. Is there a different version of the kernel or parameter to make it see all of my memory? If you compile your kernel by hand, look at menuconfig for CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G -- Viele Grüße Dominique H. Schramm

Re: memory recognition

2008-05-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/08 15:34, ChadDavis wrote: > I have 8gb of memory, bios sees it. Lenny only sees 3.2 gb. > > Is there a different version of the kernel or parameter to make it see > all of my memory? Yes. $ apt-cache search bigmem | grep ^linux | sort -

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-20 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
dman posts : > | even more interesting... > | the 2.2.20 kernel reports: > | total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > | Mem: 994078720 42676224 951402496 10178560 8065024 21536768 > | MemTotal:970780 kB > > use 'free -m' to see smaller (easier to read) numbers. > The c

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from dman, > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > | --begin quoted message from dman, > > | > On my system I have 256MB real RAM. > | > > | > It shows a total of only 249MB. dmesg shows : > | > > | > $ dmesg | grep Memory > | > Memory: 255676k

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: | --begin quoted message from dman, | > On my system I have 256MB real RAM. | > | > It shows a total of only 249MB. dmesg shows : | > | > $ dmesg | grep Memory | > Memory: 255676k/262080k available (k kernel code, 6016k reserved

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > 2.4.16-k7 shows: > Memory: 897676k/917504k available (815k kernel code, 19440k reserved, 233k > data, 212k init, 0k highmem) > > 2.2.20 shows: > Memory: 970628k/983040k available (1756k kernel code, 412k reserved, 10092k > data, 152k

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from dman, > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:31:10PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > > use 'free -m' to see smaller (easier to read) numbers. > > Check dmesg -- some memory is used for the kernel itself and isn't > available for processes to use. thanks. those are both much prett

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:31:10PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: | --begin quoted message from Adam Majer, | > Did you try a different kernel? | | even more interesting... | the 2.2.20 kernel reports: | | total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: | Mem: 994078720 42676224 9514024

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-19 Thread Noah Massey
--begin quoted message from Adam Majer, > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:43:27PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > > ok, first the problem: > > my computer has 1024 M of RAM installed. > > /proc/meminfo reports: > > > > total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > > Mem: 923058176 4606238

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:43:27PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > ok, first the problem: > my computer has 1024 M of RAM installed. > /proc/meminfo reports: > > total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 923058176 460623872 4624343040 33697792 172601344 > Swap: 317490

Re: Memory Recognition Problem

1999-07-10 Thread Gertjan Klein
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:59:52 -0400, "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The bios reports 3716k RAM with >1M memory checking enabled >there's 4 30pin simms installed. > >Linux sees 1936k available (free and top). > >Anyone know what can be causing this? The memory reported does not