Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-20 Thread Wojciech Kromer
# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7988 1120 6868 0 88 612 Now i need to rerun memory tests. Thank you for helping me with this stuff. Uff. Now full memtest takes less than 2 hours. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-19 Thread Wojciech Kromer
It's Intel-quad, so there are 4 CPUs. Weird. The message about the MTRR on all the CPUs not maching sound like a strange bios bug. Are you running the latest bios version? See the story below. Looks to match the MTRR setup at least. So how much ram does the kernel actually w

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Wojciech Kromer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x1 (4096MB), size=8192MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x28000 (10240MB), size=2048MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x26000 (9728MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg03: base=0x ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back,

Re: Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-18 Thread Wojciech Kromer
What does your mtrr look like? How about dmesg? Might be the stupid mtrr setup some bioses have been doing on intel chips where it would do: 4GB range at 4GB 1GB range at 8GB 512MB range at 9GB 256MB range at 9.5GB etc. And then it runs out of entries (which pisses of X). The simple solution

Intel-Quad on GA-P35-S3 motherboard with 4*2GB

2007-09-14 Thread Wojciech Kromer
I can't see whole 8GB of ram. With F2 BIOS release i can only work with kernel param mem=4G. After updating to F4 BIOS release I can work with mem=8G, but I see this: # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 6473474 5999