Re: Running > 4GB of Memory

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:46 -0400, Mark Hansen wrote:
> I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of 
> memory.  Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run 
> multiple virtual machines.
> 
> Problem - I can only "see" 4GB of memory.  Here is the output from
> "free -m":
> 
> mhansen@debian01:~$ free -m
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          3995       3908         86          0        145       2668
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1094       2901
> Swap:         2047          0       2047
> 
> 
> What do I need to do in order to make the other 2GB of memory available?

Build your own kernel, setting the appropriate HIGHMEM option.

  $ grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.12-1-386
  CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
  # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
  # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set

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