Re: 4 gigs of ram shows only 3 in meminfo
On 3/1/08, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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 On 02/29/08 14:24, Ed Curtis wrote:
 > Just installed a new server that has 4 gigs of ram. Running cat
 > /proc/meminfo shows only 3 gigs of memory. I though maybe there was a
 > bad stick. Checking the bios screen at boot does show 4 gigs. Any ideas
 > why etch isn't seeing all 4 gigs?
Sure.  You're not using a "highmem" kernel.
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Hey,
  Or it could be to do with this:
  http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm
  (short version: a 32 bit os maps other memory into its 4gb address space)
cheers,
Owen.
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