Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

[Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com>]

On Saturday 02 May 2009 12:54 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,02.May.09, 10:26:45, mark@neidorff.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch.  When etch was
> > installed, I had 2 Gig of ram.
> >
> > I use virtualbox to run a guest OS.  I felt that the memory that I could
> > allocate to the guest was insufficient (too much swapping) so I added 2
> > Gig more of ram (same brand and model of ram as the original).  The
> > memory is recognized at boot just fine.
>
> Do you mean by the BIOS?
>
> > This is the contents of /proc/meminfo
> > MemTotal:       906792 kB
>
> ...
>
> > As I understand what I am reading, I have (about) 1 Gig allocated as
> > system memory and (about) 3 Gig allocated as swap.  How do I change this
>
> If I'm not terribly mistaken Linux only sees those 906792 kB of memory
> (at least on my machine it shows the entire 2GB I have installed).
>
> What does 'dmesg | grep Memory:' show after boot?
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
To answer your questions:  
#1:
Yes, I mean that the memory is reported by the bios.

#2:
$dmesg | grep Memory
Memory: 901968k/917504k available (1501k kernel code, 14908k reserved,601k 
data, 256k init, 0k highmem)

Thanks,

Mark