Re: Unrecognized RAM

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

David De Graff said:

> Nate,
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        905748     460160     445588          0      78244     317964
> -/+ buffers/cache:      63952     841796
> Swap:      2048248          0    2048248
>
> Here's the key info from dmsg:
>
> Warning only 896MB will be used.
> Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
> 896MB LOWMEM available.
>
> Do I need to compile a custom kernel to use more RAM?
>
> I also see this:
>
> Advanced speculative caching feature not present
>
> Is that feature worthwhile and stable? If so, how do I activate it?


i'm not an expert in 2.4, but that is odd that only 896MB is used and
it reccomends using a highmem kernel..for linux 2.2 the default is
1GB support, highmem is only used for 2GB(i have 1 machine that has
1.5GB).

so I would suggest compiling it and turning on bigmem support,
probably in the general setup menu of the kernel config.

good luck!

nate