Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.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 11:37:44
Message-Id: 200905061337.38907.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] I can use only 3GB aout of install 6GB by Nadav Horesh
1 On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Nadav Horesh wrote:
2 > I recently added 4GB to the existing 2GB I had. The BIOS and lshw recognize
3 > the memory configuration (2 dimm of 1G and 2 of 2G), but /prc/meminfo and a
4 > test program I ran recognize 3.2GB.
5 >
6 > My system configuration:
7 > cpu: core2 6600
8 > chipset: DP965LT (Intel's motherboard)
9 >
10 > $ uname -a
11 > Linux nadav 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 6 16:53:07 IDT 2009
12 > x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
13 >
14 > c$ cat /proc/meminfo
15 >
16 > MemTotal: 3347392 kB
17 > MemFree: 2687760 kB
18 > Buffers: 22912 kB
19 > Cached: 350868 kB
20 > SwapCached: 0 kB
21 > Active: 315244 kB
22 > Inactive: 268072 kB
23 > SwapTotal: 2008116 kB
24 > SwapFree: 2008116 kB
25 > Dirty: 24 kB
26 > Writeback: 0 kB
27 > AnonPages: 209536 kB
28 > Mapped: 75700 kB
29 > Slab: 30152 kB
30 > SReclaimable: 17292 kB
31 > SUnreclaim: 12860 kB
32 > PageTables: 11760 kB
33 > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
34 > Bounce: 0 kB
35 > WritebackTmp: 0 kB
36 > CommitLimit: 3681812 kB
37 > Committed_AS: 473288 kB
38 > VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
39 > VmallocUsed: 176468 kB
40 > VmallocChunk: 34359561723 kB
41 > DirectMap4k: 15360 kB
42 > DirectMap2M: 3391488 kB
43 >
44 >
45 > Memory report out of lshw:
46 >
47 >
48 > *-memory
49 > description: System Memory
50 > physical id: 17
51 > slot: System board or motherboard
52 > size: 6GiB
53 > *-bank:0
54 > description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
55 > product: 0x202020202020202020202020202020202020
56 > vendor: 0x7F98000000000000
57 > physical id: 0
58 > serial: 0xD1CCDFF7
59 > slot: J6H1
60 > size: 2GiB
61 > width: 64 bits
62 > clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
63 > *-bank:1
64 > description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
65 > product: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
66 > vendor: 0x7F98000000000000
67 > physical id: 1
68 > serial: 0x6C06E0E5
69 > slot: J6H2
70 > size: 1GiB
71 > width: 64 bits
72 > clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
73 > *-bank:2
74 > description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
75 > product: 0x202020202020202020202020202020202020
76 > vendor: 0x7F98000000000000
77 > physical id: 2
78 > serial: 0xD1CCFFF7
79 > slot: J6J1
80 > size: 2GiB
81 > width: 64 bits
82 > clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
83 > *-bank:3
84 > description: DIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
85 > product: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
86 > vendor: 0x7F98000000000000
87 > physical id: 3
88 > serial: 0x660663BC
89 > slot: J6J2
90 > size: 1GiB
91 > width: 64 bits
92 > clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
93 >
94 > Any idea?
95 >
96 > Nadav
97
98 get a non broken bios?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] I can use only 3GB aout of install 6GB Chris Faulkner <cfaulkner70@×××××.com>
[gentoo-amd64] Re: I can use only 3GB aout of install 6GB Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>