Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
There is an option in the kernel that will make it see all the 4GB. Set the option for up o 64GB in the kernel and you may use your 4GB. On 1/24/08, Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh, but it won't last... $ free total used free shared buffers

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: There is an option in the kernel that will make it see all the 4GB. Set the option for up o 64GB in the kernel and you may use your 4GB. and slow down memory access a lot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). :-/ On 1/24/08, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: There is an option in the kernel that will make it see all the 4GB. Set the option for up o

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). and AFAIR the option won't help you, if your maiboards bios maps pci-space at the 3,6GB-4GB range. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). and AFAIR the option won't help you, if your maiboards bios maps pci-space at the 3,6GB-4GB range. --

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hal Martin
Well this machine supposedly supports up to 8GB of RAM so I can only assume that it doesn't map the pci-space to there. But I wonder, will enabling the higher RAM limit really open up more RAM? The BIOS detects all 4096MB, but Grub only lists 3.6GB. AFAIK your machine can only use as much RAM as

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Hal Martin: AFAIK your machine can only use as much RAM as the bootloader detects, no? Would be a bad thing, wouldn't it? No, the kernel does it's own detection. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2008, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: That's the problem. For one thing to work, you have to sacrify other(s). and AFAIR the option won't help you, if your

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-23 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:53 +0100 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-23 Thread Hal Martin
Ahh, but it won't last... $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 20598242044512 15312 0 37636 50868 -/+ buffers/cache: 1956008 103816 Swap: 428930812290243060284 Now this I can

[gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Higgins
So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM CONFIG_SHMEM=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM upgrade, kernel and swap

2008-01-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM CONFIG_SHMEM=y # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set