Bug#1037261: Bookworm - OOM-killer called before partition hard drives

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

On 25/06/2023 at 17:44, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 17:16 +0200, Anael Mobilia wrote:
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] x86/fpu: x87 FPU will use FXSAVE
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] signal: max sigframe size: 1440
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009fbff] usable
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000f0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003ffc9fff] usable
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000003ffca000-0x000000003fffffff] reserved
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000feffc000-0x00000000feffffff] reserved
> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fffc0000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
>
> That's 1 GiB RAM, not 32 GiB.  Still, that should be more than enough
> for installation.

But:

> > Jun  9 14:50:43 kernel: [    0.123770] Memory: 338616K/1047968K available (14342K kernel code, 2324K rwdata, 8728K rodata, 2772K init, 17436K bss, 171224K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) 

How come available memory is so low ? Or am I misunderstanding ?