David De Graff wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 7:07 PM > Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade on remote server -- DONE > > > >>>Now I just need to figure out why the OS still doesn't recognize the >> > full > >>>1GB of RAM in the machine - I wonder if this kernel was compiled without >>>himem support. >> >>what does 'free' say? from one of my boxes with 1GB ram(2.2.19): >> total used free shared buffers cached >>Mem: 970932 935060 35872 261600 504092 146920 >>-/+ buffers/cache: 284048 686884 >>Swap: 2000052 0 2000052 >> >>from dmesg: >>Memory: 970868k/983040k available (1544k kernel code, 428k reserved, > > 10136k > >>data, 64k init) > > > Nate, > > Thanks for the help. > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 905748 460160 445588 0 78244 317964 > -/+ buffers/cache: 63952 841796 > Swap: 2048248 0 2048248 > > Here's the key info from dmsg: > > Warning only 896MB will be used. > Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. > 896MB LOWMEM available. > > Do I need to compile a custom kernel to use more RAM? > > I also see this: > > Advanced speculative caching feature not present > > Is that feature worthwhile and stable? If so, how do I activate it? > > Best, > > Dave > > >
With kernel 2.4. you have to activate the high memory support. It's in the kernel configuration in 'Processor type and features'. With more than 896MB you have to set it to 4GB if you want to use all the available memory. Berthold -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
