Ram Not Showing
I had 1.5 GB (333 Mhz) in a system running Sarge with a 2.6 kernel and all of
it was used. I've just replaced the .5 GB stick with a 1 GB stick, giving me
2 GB of RAM. When I boot, the motherboard reports 2 GB, but when I check:
[root@threshnet:root]$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 906736 kB
MemFree: 685608 kB
Buffers: 5288 kB
Cached: 36948 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 177848 kB
Inactive: 20896 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 906736 kB
LowFree: 685608 kB
SwapTotal: 120476 kB
SwapFree: 120476 kB
Dirty: 1564 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 166400 kB
Slab: 12468 kB
Committed_AS: 289708 kB
PageTables: 760 kB
VmallocTotal: 122800 kB
VmallocUsed: 3012 kB
VmallocChunk: 119324 kB
The motherboard uses onboard RAM for the onboard video, but that still doesn't
explain why the motherboard reports 2GB and Linux seems to be using less than
1 GB of RAM. I'm actually better off with the .5GB stick in place of the 1GB
stick. What can I do to get Linux to use all the RAM?
Thanks!
Hal
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