Re: Sarge not showing all RAM
Intriguing! So many words in this track being said but nothing really
of any value whatever...
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 16:02 +0000, Joao Clemente wrote:
> Björn Abt wrote:
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I have a HP DL360 G4 with 2GB ECC RAM and a P4-Xeon with 3 GHz. I installed Debian Sarge netinst on this machine and after examining the system i found out that top only shows 906MB RAM, even /proc/meminfo shows only 906MB. I tried this with both the 2.4 (kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386) and 2.6 (kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386) Kernels. After that I ran memtestx86 to see if I had malicious Memory, but it showed the full 2GB and it ran a whole day without showing any errors.
> >
> > Do I miss anything ? I believe that the standard kernel should work with 2GB...
> >
> > Another machine with 1GB Non-ECC-RAM shows the full 1GB in /proc/meminfo
>
> jpcl@linux:~$ uname -a
> Linux linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 04:55:00 UTC 2004 i686
> GNU/Linux
> jpcl@linux:~$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1035796 863212 172584 0 83236 677888
> -/+ buffers/cache: 102088 933708
> Swap: 979832 0 979832
>
>
> As you can see, I have access to the full 1GB (well, not exactly 1024MB
> but I supose the remaing is eated up by the kernel)
>
> My kernel has
> # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
> CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
>
> and it IS a stock debian kernel....
> I would suggest you to check wich kernl is running in that 1GB
> non-ECC-RAM machine... I (am not sure but) believe the 686 or 686-smp
> kernels have high-mem enabled.
>
> Good luck
> Joao Clemente
>
>
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