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From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Missing 1GB RAM, where is it?
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:42:10 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinpqutPndBk1XuruwWCFqsjggnhAA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA5DB47.9080101@o2.pl>

Hi...

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 00:20, Andrzej Kardas <andrzej-kardas@o2.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm little confused about amount of RAM memory in my computer and I can't
> figure out where disappear about 1GB memory. I need yours help to explain
> this, because i can't sleep :). Here is background:
>
> I've plugged into my computer 2x2GB RAM. In BIOS screen i see:
>
> Amount of available RAM: 4096MB
>
> so BIOS recognizes all 4GB, but my OS(32bit)
>
> uname -a
> Linux lpt 2.6.33.1 #1 SMP Thu Mar 18 23:32:41 CET 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> sees only 3014MB
>
> free -m
> ???????????? total?????? used?????? free???? shared??? buffers???? cached
> Mem:????????? 3014?????? 1756?????? 1258????????? 0??????? 456??????? 918

OK, easiest things first, could you show us:
1. the output of  "grep -i highmem " toward your running kernel config file?

2. the complete entry grub/lilo stanza that is responsible to execute
your current running kernel

I need to see whether you're really enabling highmem support and
whether you use kinda kdump etc that might reserve some space in
RAM....


-- 
regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-14  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-12 16:06 Enabling Signals in kernel Vijay Ram Chitrapu
2011-04-13  1:01 ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-13 19:30   ` julie Sullivan
2011-04-13 17:20 ` Missing 1GB RAM, where is it? Andrzej Kardas
2011-04-14  2:42   ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2011-04-14 11:27     ` andrzej-kardas
2011-04-14 12:17       ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-04-14 15:23         ` Andrzej Kardas
2011-04-16  6:07           ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-04-14 15:09   ` Adrian Cornish
2011-04-14 15:43     ` Andrzej Kardas
2011-04-14 16:12       ` Haojian Zhuang
2011-04-15  0:45         ` Haojian Zhuang
     [not found]       ` <BANLkTik7g8vEf6X+suzwbXD1b4ow1__2xQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-04-17  7:58         ` Missing 1GB RAM, where is it? - SUMMARY Andrzej Kardas
2011-04-17 15:31           ` julie Sullivan
2011-04-18 10:17             ` andrzej-kardas

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