Re: POWER6 not seeing memory above 2Gb
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:07:49PM -0400, Adam Stouffer wrote:
> Hello all, I'm new to the list and just installed jessie on my IBM
> 8203-E4A box. It's a dual core 4.2Ghz with 16Gb of memory.
>
> But anyhow like the subject says the kernel is only reporting 2Gb of
> available memory. I tried appending "mem=16G" as a boot argument but
> no change.
I assume this is an LPAR. How is it configured? Do you have an HMC or
IVM connected to it?
Cascardo.
>
> Here is the output from dmesg with kernel 3.16.0
>
> [ 0.000000] physicalMemorySize = 0x80000000
> [ 0.000000] Node 0 Memory: 0x0-0x80000000
> [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
> [ 0.000000] Memory: 1899264K/2097152K available (7360K kernel code,
> 1792K rwdata, 1840K rodata, 960K init, 2071K bss, 197888K reserved)
> [ 0.023173] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
> [ 1.036652] Freeing initrd memory: 16384K (c000000003480000 -
> c000000004480000)
> [ 1.242857] Freeing unused kernel memory: 960K (c000000000910000 -
> c000000000a00000)
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
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