>> I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. >> >> I have installed the kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem but the system >> cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system still. Who can >> give me some hints? > >How much *does* it recognize?
The cat /proc/meminfo will give the following: MemTotal: 3506404 kB FYI, I've post you all the info my box give me here in the following: ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 6 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 2999.949 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 6 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 6004.90 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 6 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 2999.949 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 6 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm bogomips : 5999.88 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3506404 kB MemFree: 2854108 kB Buffers: 9760 kB Cached: 489648 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 124996 kB Inactive: 448956 kB HighTotal: 2620284 kB HighFree: 2048040 kB LowTotal: 886120 kB LowFree: 806068 kB SwapTotal: 8835740 kB SwapFree: 8835740 kB Dirty: 216 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 74528 kB Mapped: 32468 kB Slab: 56564 kB PageTables: 2436 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 10588940 kB Committed_AS: 160952 kB VmallocTotal: 118776 kB VmallocUsed: 15752 kB VmallocChunk: 102740 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux dftwerner 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:21:07 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux --------------------------------- Sincerely yours, Hongsheng. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]