Re: Ram Not Showing

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 12:17 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> 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.

It's running the stock 2.6 kernel from Sarge already.

Hal