Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:39 +0000, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
>
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I observed a similar behaviour on my Sarge laptop (Inspiron 8200): I
> > have 1GB ram but /proc/mening shows (only) 905136 kB and the Gnome
> > system monitor 884 MB.
> >
> > I have to say that my kernel is not 4GB enabled: so far I thought that
> > 1GB was smaller that 4GB.

In fact, according to the help message provided by the kernel,
1GB is on the edge: so it is  not so clear to me wether the kernel
must be 4GB enabled.

> There's something magic about that 905MB line - a 1GB RAM machine of
> ours showed that amount as total RAM when on a non-4GB and non-64GB
> kernel.  Don't know why exactly it's 905MB, but that ties up with what I
> saw.  It's not sharing with AGP memory, because my system didn't have
> that.
>
> Once upgraded to a 4GB kernel, the full 1GB was visible.
>
> Dave.

I am rebuilding my kernel with this option.

We will see,
Jerome