On 16/12/2020 22:34, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:29 PM Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com
<mailto:markkne...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:22 PM <the...@sys-concept.com
<mailto:the...@sys-concept.com>> wrote:
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>> I run Memtest86 on my old box and it completed 1pass without any errors.
>> Memtest86 reports 16G memory
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>> When I boot Gentoo it shows only 3282Mb
>> free -m
>> total used free shared buff/cache
>> available
>> Mem: 3282 125 2475 7 680
>> 3033
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>> Is it a motherboard? How to test it?
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> cat /proc/meminfo
Or lshw and look for the DIMM modules themselves
Or is this a 32-bit system WITHOUT extended memory support?
I don't properly understand it, but with a 32-bit system the kernel uses
1GB of memory and user-space uses the other 3GB. Extended memory support
means each process can have its own 3GB space which enables you to use
all available memory, but without it I think the entire system is stuck
in the first 4GB.
Cheers,
Wol
