Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: wraeth wrote: On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other one-size-fits-most medium and seeing if your full memory is registering there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it doesn't, then either you've got bad hardware or a configuration issue in your BIOS. cheers wraeth Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this would be on by default but . . . . Make sure you are really running a 64-bit kernel! Sure seems like you are not to me, but there may be other things. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Am 21.05.2014 23:37, schrieb Alex Schuster: Hi there! So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux leela ~ # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3688 3269419 0108 1050 -/+ buffers/cache: 2110 1577 Swap: 2047 54 1993 Huh? Any idea why this is? The BIOS shows the full 8GiB, and lshw finds it. dmidecode shows that 8G should work: leela ~ # dmidecode -t 16 # dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.7 present. Handle 0x0008, DMI type 16, 23 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: None Maximum Capacity: 8 GB Error Information Handle: Not Provided Number Of Devices: 2 In case this helps, I uploaded the outputs of dmesg [1], lshw -c memory [2] and full dmidecode output [3]. The dmesg output is somewhat weird though, it has several 'vmalloc: allocation failure: 0 bytes' entries. I suspected those were causing the problem, but I found that I needed to activate CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y, and they are gone. But still only 4 GiB RAM. The system is using an old kernel right now, so I cannot get the current dmesg, sorry for this. Probably related: Since I inserted this 2nd RAM module, wakeup from hibernate-ram does no longer work. Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. [1] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/lshw.txt [2] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/dmesg.txt [3] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/dmidecode.txt Wonko To be sure, that the new RAM isn't broken, try booting with only the new RAM inserted in the 1st slot. If it works, insert the old RAM into the 2nd slot and see if the problem persists. Good luck Daniel -- Get my PGP key at: * http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x837FB8B5BB9D4887 * $ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xBB9D4887 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this would be on by default but . . . . That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The live CD idea is a good one, also run memtest86+ to make sure the RAM is not only seen but working. -- Neil Bothwick I have seen things you lusers would not believe. I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week. Time to die. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this would be on by default but . . . . That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The live CD idea is a good one, also run memtest86+ to make sure the RAM is not only seen but working. Could be. I can't recall if it was on my new rig or my older rig that I had to do that on. Old age and got to much stuff going on. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Hi there! So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux leela ~ # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3688 3269419 0108 1050 -/+ buffers/cache: 2110 1577 Swap: 2047 54 1993 Huh? Any idea why this is? The BIOS shows the full 8GiB, and lshw finds it. dmidecode shows that 8G should work: leela ~ # dmidecode -t 16 # dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.7 present. Handle 0x0008, DMI type 16, 23 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: None Maximum Capacity: 8 GB Error Information Handle: Not Provided Number Of Devices: 2 In case this helps, I uploaded the outputs of dmesg [1], lshw -c memory [2] and full dmidecode output [3]. The dmesg output is somewhat weird though, it has several 'vmalloc: allocation failure: 0 bytes' entries. I suspected those were causing the problem, but I found that I needed to activate CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y, and they are gone. But still only 4 GiB RAM. The system is using an old kernel right now, so I cannot get the current dmesg, sorry for this. Probably related: Since I inserted this 2nd RAM module, wakeup from hibernate-ram does no longer work. Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. [1] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/lshw.txt [2] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/dmesg.txt [3] http://www.wonkology.org/tmp/dmidecode.txt Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other one-size-fits-most medium and seeing if your full memory is registering there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it doesn't, then either you've got bad hardware or a configuration issue in your BIOS. cheers wraeth -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlN9NLMACgkQXcRKerLZ91knaQD/VGNVPzB+voalyCX4GiU9e3Zy oz82/X8k+BlDFqhUulMA/AqNcFqqAIXOBUym1DSJfJWd5eu5gBpia+G3cTjGLkt6 =My0D -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
wraeth wrote: On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other one-size-fits-most medium and seeing if your full memory is registering there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it doesn't, then either you've got bad hardware or a configuration issue in your BIOS. cheers wraeth Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this would be on by default but . . . . Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/14 09:20, wraeth wrote: Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other one-size-fits-most medium and seeing if your full memory is registering there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it doesn't, then either you've got bad hardware or a configuration issue in your BIOS. Just had another thought, too: you could check what the BIOS reports either by entering the BIOS configuration and going to the system information area, or by inspecting your machines POST output (the diagnostic information that is displayed during boot, sometimes hidden by a splash screen with Press [something] to show details. cheers wraeth -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlN9ZGAACgkQXcRKerLZ91mfFgD/RljFu05+0ymLJrOs8BRUvTji bk1s4RhOGroibx8GaMkA/2xZjYptJrj7PM+7ebw+2FN0juGKFZQyQ5VrL81yYn0z =eRY0 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
