From: Nagy Tibor <nagyt@otpbank.hu>
To: xela@slit.de, mochel@osdl.org, bmoyle@mvista.com, orc@pell.chi.il.us
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: HIGHMEM
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:20:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <402CC114.8080100@dell633.otpefo.com> (raw)
Hi,
I am sorry, I have found your e-mail address in
./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c. I have the problem below since a year, and
there is no solution yet. I guess, the problem is about e820. The
problem exists in 2.4.x and also in 2.6.1.
We have two Dell Poweredge servers, an older one (PowerEdge 6300) and a
newer one (PowerEdge 6400). Both servers have 4GB RAM, but the Linux
kernel uses about 500MB less memory in the newer machine.
----------------------- 2.4.20 ---------------------------------
See /var/log/boot.msg on the old one:
<4>Linux version 2.4.20 (root@dell632) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(SuSE)) #4 SMP Fri Jan 10 12:07:00 CET 2003
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000fbffe000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fbffe000 - 00000000fc000000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
<5>3135MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>896MB LOWMEM available.
and on the new one:
<4>Linux version 2.4.20 (root@alfa) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE))
#10 SMP Fri Mar 28 15:40:45 CET 2003
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000dfff0000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000dfff0000 - 00000000dfffec00 (ACPI data)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000dfffec00 - 00000000dffff000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
<5>2687MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>896MB LOWMEM available.
There is a big hole between 00000000dffff000 and 00000000fec00000, which
is not used on the new machine. What can I do?
------------------------------ 2.6.1 ------------------------------
I do not see in boot.msg such a detailed memory map, but the next line
in boot.msg indicates, that the situation is the same:
<6>Memory: 3627908k/3669952k available (2918k kernel code, 40908k
reserved, 1049k data, 180k init, 2752448k highmem)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
ACPI can not be disabled in BIOS. If ACPI is disbled in the kernel, the
memory mapping remains the same, but CPU hyperthreading does not work also.
Thanks for your help.
Tibor
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Tibor Nagy
E-mail: nagyt@otpbank.hu
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next reply other threads:[~2004-02-13 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-13 12:20 Nagy Tibor [this message]
2004-02-13 13:12 ` HIGHMEM Sean Neakums
2004-02-13 16:05 ` HIGHMEM Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-13 22:09 ` HIGHMEM Matt Domsch
2004-02-13 22:18 ` HIGHMEM Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-13 17:08 ` HIGHMEM david parsons
2004-02-13 13:36 ` HIGHMEM Matt Domsch
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-15 14:39 HIGHMEM Nagy Tibor
2003-04-15 15:14 ` HIGHMEM William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-15 16:03 ` HIGHMEM Samuel Flory
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