Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem
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 init)
>
> neither of which is the 1048576k that I'd expect.
>
> given that each kernel consistently shows the same amount of mem, and
> that they disagree with each other on what that amount is, does this
> look like a kernel bug? or is there something that I'm just not doing?
Possible. Talk to the kernel people - they might want to know this. And the hardware
that you are running on.
- Adam
PS. Try 2.4.17-i386 just for fun.. If it detects 917504k again then it is probably a
kernel problem. If not, then it might have to do with 2.4.16 or Athlon optimization
thing [compiler?].
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