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On Thursday 06 January 2011 23:32:01 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> * Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > Apropos total memory: on my box w/ 4GB, it only shows up 3GB. |
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> > > On bootup, kernel (built w/ CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y) says: |
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> > > 2119MB HIGHMEM available. |
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> > > 887MB LOWMEM available. |
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> > > Who's eating up a whole GB ? BIOS ? GPU ? |
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> > bios |
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> BIOS really eats it all up, or maybe some misconfiguration that |
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> causes memory hidden from the OS ? |
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> cu |
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the misconfiguration is done by the bios, mapping pcispace&co into the 3-4gb |
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range |