Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 May 2005 10:44:12 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: I'm having 4GB RAM, but Linux sees just 3GB??? |
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Christian Parpart wrote: > Hi all, > > I was asking this in gentoo-server mailing list before, however, they finally > pointed me to this place as it could also be a bug in the kernel. > > I'm having a TYAN board with two AMD Opteron 248 and 4x 1GB ECC RAM on it. The > BIOS reflects what I've plugged in, however, the operating system does not. > > my `uname -a` output is: > Linux battousai 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Sat May 14 02:42:15 CEST 2005 x86_64 > AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > and my `dmidecode` output is located at [0]. For ANY reason, dmidecode even > knows about my 4GB RAM, but `free -m` nor `kinfocenter` of KDE claims to see > just 3GB. > > free -m: > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3015 2993 22 0 15 2638 > -/+ buffers/cache: 338 2677 > Swap: 511 1 510 > > This is rather sad to see 1GB RAM plugged in for nothing. > > Has anyone a hint for my WHY this is happening and HOW I could get rid of it? > > Thanks in advance, > Christian Parpart. > > [0] http://dev.gentoo.org/~trapni/dmidecode.txt >
Are you running a 64-bit kernel? What does "dmesg | grep e820" show?
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