Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

[Rumen Yotov]

Mark Shields wrote:

>I recently got my home server back up and running after the power
>supply went out. I put some more memory in it, and it shows up fine
>as 1048576 KB (1 gigabyte). Gentoo, however, is only showing it as
>904336 KB (883.14 MB) . I'm curious as to why it's not detecting
>140.86 MB. Originally the server had a 512mb stick of generic PC2700
>memory; I put 2 sticks of 256 MB (Mushkin, PC3200). The FSB is set to
>133 mhz and cpu/mem ratio is set 1:1 (Athlon XP 2400+ for the
>processor). It's running in a dual channel memory config.
>
>mark@laeb ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
>MemTotal: 904336 kB
>MemFree: 91224 kB
>
>Any ideas?

Hi,
There's an option in kernel-config to enable the remaining memory you
have. Check it.
HTH. Rumen