Re: How to enable HIGHMEM in sid?
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On Friday 23 May 2003 01:58 pm, Charlie Zender wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Debian sid on a Dell laptop with 1 GB RAM.
> dmsg tells me that this warning occurs during the boot process:
>
> "Warning only 896MB will be used.
> Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
> 896MB LOWMEM available."
>
> Does this mean what it sounds like? i.e., that I'm only going to
> be able to access 900 MB RAM unless I install a kernel with HIGHMEM
> enabled? If so, are there .debs of kernels with HIGHMEM enabled,
> or should I build from scratch? Or is there a configuration/boot
> switch that does this?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
> --
> Charlie Zender, zender at uci dot edu, (949) 824-2987, Department of
> Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
My box uses a standard kernel and I get full use of 1gb of memory,afaik.
That said there is a configuration choice when you compile your kernel for
1-4gb & 64gb. This is under 'processor type & features'
clos:/usr/src# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 1058816000 1046114304 12701696 0 314310656 523231232
Swap: 511655936 55361536 456294400
MemTotal: 1034000 kB
MemFree: 12404 kB
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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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