I recently got my home server back up and running after the power
supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine
as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as
904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting
140.86 MB. Originally the
On Jul 24, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Mark Shields wrote:
I recently got my home server back up and running after the power
supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine
as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as
904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to
On Sunday 24 07 2005 21:46 Mark Shields wrote:
I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine
as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as
904336 KB (883.14 MB) .
Did you enable high Memory Support in your kernel?
HTH
Kai Ole Schultz
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Mark Shields wrote:
I recently got my home server back up and running after the power
supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine
as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as
904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting
140.86 MB.
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:46:10 -0400, Mark Shields wrote:
I recently got my home server back up and running after the power
supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine
as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as
904336 KB (883.14 MB) .
You need
No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless
you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from
putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well):
Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration
Mark Shields wrote:
No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless
you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from
putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well):
Actually, help says:
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM:
If you are compiling a kernel which
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote:
No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless
you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from
putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well):
well the -mm kernel does not have this option
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
On 7/24/05, Rudmer van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote:
No I do not, as I was under
Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends upon your BIOS
options. All of those cache this
On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Fish wrote:
Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
I am pretty sure this is actually correct, and depends
I'm fairly sure those options are disabled by default (I think). No
way to check from my work though (ssh-enabled BIOS, or BIOS
configurable from linux, would be nice).
On 7/24/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Modern operating system like Linux 2.6 and WinXP bypass the BIOS
after the
I'm fairly sure those options are disabled by default (I think).
On 7/24/05, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
17 minutes ago, yes.
On 7/24/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you build the kernel with high memory?
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On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
that's better than here:
rudmer:~ # cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal:
Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:52, Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
Could it be shared ram taken for an on board graphics
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:38:24 +0200, Jarry wrote:
Actually, help says:
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM:
If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer off here
It looks to me, that up to 1GB (including) the answer should be
Colin wrote:
On Jul 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, Richard Fish wrote:
Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
I am pretty sure this is actually
Hi,
Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing.
That sounds perfectly normal. The kernel usually secures 10-20mb RAM for
itself, which isn't available
Ah, I wasn't aware, but that's a perfectly plausible explanation.
On 7/24/05, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Mark Shields wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal: 1034284 kB
MemFree:953172 kB
Thanks for the tip. But strangely,
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