On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:22 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> I run Memtest86 on my old box and it completed 1pass without any errors. > Memtest86 reports 16G memory > > When I boot Gentoo it shows only 3282Mb > free -m > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 3282 125 2475 7 680 > 3033 > > Is it a motherboard? How to test it? > > Are you perhaps booting a 32-bit kernel? A 32 bit kernel is not going to see all 16GB of RAM, only what fits in its 32-bit address space. You need a 64-bit kernel (or a 32-bit kernel with Physical Address Extensions enabled) to be able to see all the RAM. -- Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <[email protected]> <http://www.mclure.org> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft
