Hal Vaughan wrote: > 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 > > Use a kernel that is 4GB enabled (CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y), such as any stock 2.6 Debian kernel. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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