Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Chris Faulkner <cfaulkner70@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] I can use only 3GB aout of install 6GB
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 13:18:30
Message-Id: 77e2f44f0905060618v3cbe6c8ct30c4fb3f7e5b8bd6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] I can use only 3GB aout of install 6GB by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 dumb question but i can't overlook the obvious, are you sure you are
2 in AMD64 kernel?
3
4 2009/5/6 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>:
5 > On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Nadav Horesh wrote:
6 >> I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw recognize
7 >> the memory configuration (2 dimm of 1G and 2 of 2G), but /prc/meminfo and a
8 >> test program I ran recognize 3.2GB.
9 >>
10 >> My system configuration:
11 >> cpu: core2 6600
12 >> chipset:  DP965LT (Intel's motherboard)
13 >>
14 >> $ uname -a
15 >> Linux nadav 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 6 16:53:07 IDT 2009
16 >> x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
17 >>
18 >> c$ cat /proc/meminfo
19 >>
20 >> MemTotal:      3347392 kB
21 >> MemFree:       2687760 kB
22 >> Buffers:         22912 kB
23 >> Cached:         350868 kB
24 >> SwapCached:          0 kB
25 >> Active:         315244 kB
26 >> Inactive:       268072 kB
27 >> SwapTotal:     2008116 kB
28 >> SwapFree:      2008116 kB
29 >> Dirty:              24 kB
30 >> Writeback:           0 kB
31 >> AnonPages:      209536 kB
32 >> Mapped:          75700 kB
33 >> Slab:            30152 kB
34 >> SReclaimable:    17292 kB
35 >> SUnreclaim:      12860 kB
36 >> PageTables:      11760 kB
37 >> NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
38 >> Bounce:              0 kB
39 >> WritebackTmp:        0 kB
40 >> CommitLimit:   3681812 kB
41 >> Committed_AS:   473288 kB
42 >> VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
43 >> VmallocUsed:    176468 kB
44 >> VmallocChunk: 34359561723 kB
45 >> DirectMap4k:     15360 kB
46 >> DirectMap2M:   3391488 kB
47 >>
48 >>
49 >> Memory report out of lshw:
50 >>
51 >>
52 >>      *-memory
53 >>           description: System Memory
54 >>           physical id: 17
55 >>           slot: System board or motherboard
56 >>           size: 6GiB
57 >>         *-bank:0
58 >>              description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
59 >>              product: 0x202020202020202020202020202020202020
60 >>              vendor: 0x7F98000000000000
61 >>              physical id: 0
62 >>              serial: 0xD1CCDFF7
63 >>              slot: J6H1
64 >>              size: 2GiB
65 >>              width: 64 bits
66 >>              clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
67 >>         *-bank:1
68 >>              description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
69 >>              product: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
70 >>              vendor: 0x7F98000000000000
71 >>              physical id: 1
72 >>              serial: 0x6C06E0E5
73 >>              slot: J6H2
74 >>              size: 1GiB
75 >>              width: 64 bits
76 >>              clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
77 >>         *-bank:2
78 >>              description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
79 >>              product: 0x202020202020202020202020202020202020
80 >>              vendor: 0x7F98000000000000
81 >>              physical id: 2
82 >>              serial: 0xD1CCFFF7
83 >>              slot: J6J1
84 >>              size: 2GiB
85 >>              width: 64 bits
86 >>              clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
87 >>         *-bank:3
88 >>              description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
89 >>              product: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
90 >>              vendor: 0x7F98000000000000
91 >>              physical id: 3
92 >>              serial: 0x660663BC
93 >>              slot: J6J2
94 >>              size: 1GiB
95 >>              width: 64 bits
96 >>              clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
97 >>
98 >>   Any idea?
99 >>
100 >>     Nadav
101 >
102 > get a non broken bios?
103 >
104 >
105 >

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