Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Parpart <> | Subject | Re: I'm having 4GB RAM, but Linux sees just 3GB??? | Date | Mon, 16 May 2005 20:01:22 +0200 |
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On Monday 16 May 2005 7:15 pm, Peter Buckingham wrote: > Christian Parpart wrote: > > Has anyone a hint for my WHY this is happening and HOW I could get rid of > > it? > > This is because there is a PCI memory hole of about 1GB of space on the > x86_64 platform. Basically it overlays the address space of the RAM that > you have. > > You can try to enable memory hoisting (it may be called software memory > hole in your bios). This will try to remap you RAM above the 4GB > boundary so that the PCI space and your RAMs address space do not > conflict. Unfortunately, this does not work particularly well...
Yeah, ("software"/"hardware"/"disabled") has been the other dropdown list in my BIOS (i remember now;) however, it's been 'disabled' as I touched my host first, and playing around didn't help *yet". although here, the BIOS reference book just didn't talk about this area either.
I'll try once again, thx all ;)
Regards, Christian Parpart.
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