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Christian Parpart wrote: |
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> On Saturday 14 May 2005 6:28 pm, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: |
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> |
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>>Christian Parpart wrote: |
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>> |
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>>>Hi all, |
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>>> |
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>>>I finally got it; my Operaton workstation with 2x Opteron248 CPUs and 4GB |
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>>>RAM is arrived. However, the BIOS says that I really have 4GB RAM inside, |
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>>>that I have, but the Linux is just telling me something about 3GB. `free |
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>>>-mt` as well as `kinfocenter` are telling this. Although, I |
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>>>(unfortunately) *had* to install windows2003 on a partition, too (for |
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>>>working for my company), and there it is also just telling me something |
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>>>about 3 (instead of 4) GB RAM. |
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>>> |
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>>>Did I miss something? |
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>>> |
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>>>mem=4096M in boot commandline didn't help there much. |
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>>> |
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>>>I'm having a TYAN board, with PhoenixBIOS on it. The handbook is far off |
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>>>being a good handbox, so, did I miss something I should |
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>>>configure/reconfigure in the BIOS then, so, that the OS will use all RAM? |
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>>theese are more or less memory related values in my kernel config |
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>> |
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>>CONFIG_MTRR=y |
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>>CONFIG_K8_NUMA=y |
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>>CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y |
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>>CONFIG_GART_IOMMU=y |
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> |
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> |
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> trapni@battousai ~ $ zgrep -E 'CONFIG_(MTRR|K8_NUMA|DISCONTIGMEM| |
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> GARTIOMMU)' /proc/config.gz |
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> CONFIG_MTRR=y |
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> CONFIG_K8_NUMA=y |
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> CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y |
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> |
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> though, CONFIG_GART_IOMMU must have been disabled, and I remember I did not |
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> enable gart at all because I'm having Nvidia GeForce 6600GT (PCI-express) and |
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> wanna use the `Option "NvAGP" "1"` line in my xorg.conf - this is at least |
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> what I had with my old GeForce 5200 working before. |
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> |
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> |
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>>and this my "free" output: |
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>>free -m |
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>> total used free shared buffers cached |
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>>Mem: 3429 3069 359 0 627 1775 |
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>>-/+ buffers/cache: 667 2762 |
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>>Swap: 0 0 0 |
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> |
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> |
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> trapni@battousai ~ $ free -m |
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> total used free shared buffers cached |
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> Mem: 3015 2990 24 0 11 2136 |
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> -/+ buffers/cache: 843 2172 |
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> Swap: 511 19 492 |
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> that's really borring looking at the Mem-total line, it should be anything |
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> around 4048, not 3015 anyway... |
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> |
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> though, it's unfortunately *not* the same as you. |
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> |
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> but, why duo have a total-mem of 3429M? how much RAM duo have physically |
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> plugged in to your board's slots? |
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> |
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(1G+1G) + (1G+1G) |
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and "dmidecode" show this about memory: |
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[...] |
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Handle 0x0022 |
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DMI type 17, 27 bytes. |
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Memory Device |
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Array Handle: 0x0020 |
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Error Information Handle: 0x001F |
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Total Width: 72 bits |
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Data Width: 64 bits |
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Size: 1024 MB |
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Form Factor: DIMM |
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Set: None |
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Locator: DIMM0 |
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Bank Locator: BANK0 |
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Type: SDRAM |
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Type Detail: Synchronous |
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Speed: Unknown |
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Manufacturer: Manufacturer1 |
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Serial Number: SerNum1 |
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Asset Tag: AssetTagNum1 |
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Part Number: PartNum1 |
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Handle 0x0023 |
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DMI type 126, 19 bytes. |
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Inactive |
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Handle 0x0024 |
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DMI type 17, 27 bytes. |
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Memory Device |
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Array Handle: 0x0020 |
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Error Information Handle: 0x001F |
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Total Width: 72 bits |
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Data Width: 64 bits |
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Size: 1024 MB |
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Form Factor: DIMM |
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Set: None |
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Locator: DIMM1 |
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Bank Locator: BANK1 |
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Type: SDRAM |
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Type Detail: Synchronous |
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Speed: Unknown |
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Manufacturer: Manufacturer2 |
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Serial Number: SerNum2 |
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Asset Tag: AssetTagNum2 |
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Part Number: PartNum2 |
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[...] |
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Handle 0x0026 |
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DMI type 17, 27 bytes. |
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Memory Device |
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Array Handle: 0x0020 |
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Error Information Handle: 0x001F |
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Total Width: Unknown |
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Data Width: Unknown |
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Size: No Module Installed |
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Form Factor: DIMM |
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Set: None |
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Locator: DIMM2 |
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Bank Locator: BANK2 |
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Type: Unknown |
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Type Detail: Unknown |
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Speed: Unknown |
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Manufacturer: Manufacturer2 |
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Serial Number: SerNum2 |
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Asset Tag: AssetTagNum2 |
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Part Number: PartNum2 |
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Handle 0x0027 |
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DMI type 126, 19 bytes. |
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Inactive |
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Handle 0x0028 |
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DMI type 17, 27 bytes. |
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Memory Device |
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Array Handle: 0x0020 |
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Error Information Handle: 0x001F |
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Total Width: Unknown |
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Data Width: Unknown |
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Size: No Module Installed |
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Form Factor: DIMM |
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Set: None |
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Locator: DIMM3 |
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Bank Locator: BANK3 |
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Type: Unknown |
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Type Detail: Unknown |
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Speed: Unknown |
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Manufacturer: Manufacturer2 |
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Serial Number: SerNum2 |
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Asset Tag: AssetTagNum2 |
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Part Number: PartNum2 |
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Handle 0x0029 |
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[...] |
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I've not time/possibility to investigate it further, if you came to a |
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solution ... sharing will be higly apreciated |
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Regards, |
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Francesco Riosa |
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