Christian Parpart wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I finally got it; my Operaton workstation with 2x Opteron248 CPUs and 4GB RAM
> is arrived. However, the BIOS says that I really have 4GB RAM inside, that I
> have, but the Linux is just telling me something about 3GB. `free -mt` as
> well as `kinfocenter` are telling this. Although, I (unfortunately) *had* to
> install windows2003 on a partition, too (for working for my company), and
> there it is also just telling me something about 3 (instead of 4) GB RAM.
>
> Did I miss something?
>
> mem=4096M in boot commandline didn't help there much.
>
> I'm having a TYAN board, with PhoenixBIOS on it. The handbook is far off
> being
> a good handbox, so, did I miss something I should configure/reconfigure in
> the BIOS then, so, that the OS will use all RAM?
theese are more or less memory related values in my kernel config
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_K8_NUMA=y
CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y
CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y
and this my "free" output:
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3429 3069 359 0 627 1775
-/+ buffers/cache: 667 2762
Swap: 0 0 0
is this the same as you ?
Regards francesco
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