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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:11:26
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.62.0507241703570.5619@gandalf
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory by Mark Shields
1 Did you build the kernel with high memory?
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3 On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mark Shields wrote:
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5 > I recently got my home server back up and running after the power
6 > supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine
7 > as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as
8 > 904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting
9 > 140.86 MB. Originally the server had a 512mb stick of generic PC2700
10 > memory; I put 2 sticks of 256 MB (Mushkin, PC3200). The FSB is set to
11 > 133 mhz and cpu/mem ratio is set 1:1 (Athlon XP 2400+ for the
12 > processor). It's running in a dual channel memory config.
13 >
14 > mark@laeb ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
15 > MemTotal: 904336 kB
16 > MemFree: 91224 kB
17 >
18 > Any ideas?
19 >
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>