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Re: 1GB RAM is missing.



I am prepraing new kernel compilation , as I see HIGHMEM was set to
4GiB , shall I set to 64GiB ?



On Oct 22, 12:20 am, Tim Gruene <t...@runnwerth.net> wrote:
> If -k8  exists, you can use it. It is just a flavour of the kernel with
> some features that are only available for k8 and above (similar to -i686
> kernels, etc.)
>
> Your dmesg does suggest that the kernel knows 4GB, but  HIGHMEM4G is
> probably set to 'no'.
>
> in that case, according to the kernel documentation:
> "If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
>     more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default
>     choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB"
>     split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory
>     space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used
>     by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as
>     possible."
>
> Using an appropriate kernel should solve your problem.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, pgega wrote:
> > Yes, Motherboard supports 8GiB,
>
> > Here is dmesg output for 3 of 4 RAM sticks
> >http://pastie.caboo.se/109470
> > Might be helpfull.
>
> > This morning I will paste Dmesg output for 4 of 4 RAM sticks.
>
> > Andrei, do not hurt me , but I am not too familiar with k7 ?
> > Is it just option of kernel ,like 2.6.23.1-k7 or more like system
> > architecture x86 , am64 etc?.
>
> > I use AMD 64 Athlon X2 is K7 for me ?
>
> > I tried swaping all of them in any possible order, none of sticks is
> > broken.
>
> > Kind regards,
> > Pawel Gega
>
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