On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three > > 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system > > monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine > > boots, it says it has 1572864 memory, so I think the machine sees > > the memory, but for some reason Linux is not seeing it all. Do I > > need to change some setting on my system? > > You need to either, install the 'enterprise' kernel, or compile > your existing kernel from source and config the 'high memory' option. > There's good reason why this is not in the 'regular' kernel. Kernel > memory management above 1 gig is slower. If you don't just have to > have 1.5 gigs of ram (video editing?), you'd be better off leaving > the regular kernel as is. Yes, the enterprise kernel will see all > your ram with no problem, but your system will be slower. Probly be a > better idea to take one of those 512mb sticks out and sell it ;)
Pretty soon all the PCs and laptops will need to have more than 1GB of RAM. What is happening here is probably an early signal for the kernel developers to revamp memory management. Seedkum
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