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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory



Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry:
> That's interesting. I was booted up in Lenny using the 2.6.11 kernel, and 
> usually see Gkrellm showing 885Mb of my 1Gb RAM. I've since rebooted with the 
> 2.6.17 kernel , and with that kernel, Gkrellm is showing the full 1005Mb of 
> RAM. The onboard graphics card is a Cyberbladei1 (trident driver).
> 
> Quite why booting with the 2.6.11 shows 885Mb, and booting with the 2.6.17 
> shows 1005Mb is a bit bizarre. Probably some kernel thingy.

Was the 2.6.11 kernel an 386 or 686 one and
now the 2.6.17 a k7 or something like this?

Then it is normal if HIGHMEM4 was not enabled,
since CPUS's up to 686 have general not more
then 768 MByte of ram.

Only the newer Mainboards P3 and higher have
HIGHMEM4 since all manboards support at least
2 GByte of memory

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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