From: Christian Parpart <trapni@gentoo.org>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I'm having 4GB RAM, but Linux sees just 3GB???
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 17:01:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505161701.06558.trapni@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4288B1BC.5050207@didntduck.org>
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On Monday 16 May 2005 4:44 pm, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Christian Parpart wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was asking this in gentoo-server mailing list before, however, they
> > finally pointed me to this place as it could also be a bug in the kernel.
> >
> > I'm having a TYAN board with two AMD Opteron 248 and 4x 1GB ECC RAM on
> > it. The BIOS reflects what I've plugged in, however, the operating system
> > does not.
> >
> > my `uname -a` output is:
> > Linux battousai 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Sat May 14 02:42:15 CEST 2005
> > x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> >
> > and my `dmidecode` output is located at [0]. For ANY reason, dmidecode
> > even knows about my 4GB RAM, but `free -m` nor `kinfocenter` of KDE
> > claims to see just 3GB.
> >
> > free -m:
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 3015 2993 22 0 15 2638
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 338 2677
> > Swap: 511 1 510
> >
> > This is rather sad to see 1GB RAM plugged in for nothing.
> >
> > Has anyone a hint for my WHY this is happening and HOW I could get rid of
> > it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Christian Parpart.
> >
> > [0] http://dev.gentoo.org/~trapni/dmidecode.txt
>
> Are you running a 64-bit kernel? What does "dmesg | grep e820" show?
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000094800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000094800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000c2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bff20000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff20000 - 00000000bff2e000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff2e000 - 00000000bff80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff80000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec00400 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
hmm... what does this mean?
Well, yeah, the whole system is 64bit compiled.
Regards,
Christian Parpart.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-16 14:04 I'm having 4GB RAM, but Linux sees just 3GB??? Christian Parpart
2005-05-16 14:44 ` Brian Gerst
2005-05-16 15:01 ` Christian Parpart [this message]
2005-05-16 17:48 ` Brian Gerst
2005-05-16 17:59 ` Christian Parpart
2005-05-17 6:34 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-05-16 17:15 ` Peter Buckingham
2005-05-16 18:01 ` Christian Parpart
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