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From: Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:35:03
Message-Id: 5cd1cd690711170725n56ee9677gc61f788548ea006d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64 by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Can you just run "uname -a" and cut/paste that to an email and send to
2 us? I think you are still in 32bit land.
3
4 On Nov 16, 2007 2:17 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
5 >
6 > Greets,
7 >
8 > following that Core2Duo-thread from a few days ago I now set up a new
9 > installation of my current 32bit-x86-setup on a second 64bit machine.
10 >
11 > I started a fresh install with the amd64 cd, used
12 > CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" and emerged everything fresh from the world
13 > file on the 32bit machine.
14 >
15 > I built the kernel for a generic 64bit CPU (just to make sure that it
16 > will be easy to move that partition to the target system, I will have to
17 > move from a Pentium D950 to a Core2Duo E6600).
18 >
19 > #zgrep 64 /proc/config.gz
20 > CONFIG_X86_64=y
21 > CONFIG_64BIT=y
22 > [...]
23 >
24 > Now I wonder why "free -m" still shows only 3.2 GB of RAM when I have 4
25 > gigs in the box ...
26 >
27 > Do I have to set/remove some specific kernel-flag in
28 > /usr/src/linux/.config ?
29 >
30 > Do I misunderstand something?
31 >
32 > Thanks for any pointer, Stefan
33 >
34 > --
35 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
36 >
37 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] "free -m" under x86_64 "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>