On Saturday 14 May 2005 9:57 pm, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Christian Parpart wrote: > > On Saturday 14 May 2005 6:28 pm, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > >>Christian Parpart wrote: > >>>Hi all, > >>> > >>>I finally got it; my Operaton workstation with 2x Opteron248 CPUs and > >>> 4GB RAM is arrived. However, the BIOS says that I really have 4GB RAM > >>> inside, that I have, but the Linux is just telling me something about > >>> 3GB. `free -mt` as well as `kinfocenter` are telling this. Although, I > >>>(unfortunately) *had* to install windows2003 on a partition, too (for > >>>working for my company), and there it is also just telling me something > >>>about 3 (instead of 4) GB RAM. > >>> > >>>Did I miss something? > >>> > >>>mem=4096M in boot commandline didn't help there much. > >>> > >>>I'm having a TYAN board, with PhoenixBIOS on it. The handbook is far off > >>>being a good handbox, so, did I miss something I should > >>>configure/reconfigure in the BIOS then, so, that the OS will use all > >>> RAM? > >> > >>theese are more or less memory related values in my kernel config > >> > >>CONFIG_MTRR=y > >>CONFIG_K8_NUMA=y > >>CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y > >>CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ zgrep -E 'CONFIG_(MTRR|K8_NUMA|DISCONTIGMEM| > > GARTIOMMU)' /proc/config.gz > > CONFIG_MTRR=y > > CONFIG_K8_NUMA=y > > CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y > > > > though, CONFIG_GART_IOMMU must have been disabled, and I remember I did > > not enable gart at all because I'm having Nvidia GeForce 6600GT > > (PCI-express) and wanna use the `Option "NvAGP" "1"` line in my xorg.conf > > - this is at least what I had with my old GeForce 5200 working before. > > > >>and this my "free" output: > >>free -m > >> total used free shared buffers cached > >>Mem: 3429 3069 359 0 627 1775 > >>-/+ buffers/cache: 667 2762 > >>Swap: 0 0 0 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free -m > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 3015 2990 24 0 11 2136 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 843 2172 > > Swap: 511 19 492 > > > > that's really borring looking at the Mem-total line, it should be > > anything around 4048, not 3015 anyway... > > > > though, it's unfortunately *not* the same as you. > > > > but, why duo have a total-mem of 3429M? how much RAM duo have physically > > plugged in to your board's slots? > > (1G+1G) + (1G+1G) > > and "dmidecode" show this about memory: [...]
that's rather interesting - I didn't know about such tools before :) Though, I must see, that at least dmidecode is aware of my 4GB RAM. I've uploaded the full output of dmidecode to [0]. So, now it's imteresting in why the dmidecode software sees all RAM (at least by reading from the boot specs), and why the OS doesn't... > I've not time/possibility to investigate it further, if you came to a > solution ... sharing will be higly apreciated Of course I'll do so (ASAP I know WTF it isn't using all my RAM) Regards, Christian Parpart. [0] http://dev.gentoo.org/~trapni/dmidecode.txt -- Netiquette: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt 15:08:20 up 53 days, 4:14, 0 users, load average: 1.53, 1.70, 1.54
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