Intriguing! So many words in this track being said but nothing really of any value whatever...
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 16:02 +0000, Joao Clemente wrote: > Björn Abt wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I have a HP DL360 G4 with 2GB ECC RAM and a P4-Xeon with 3 GHz. I installed > > Debian Sarge netinst on this machine and after examining the system i found > > out that top only shows 906MB RAM, even /proc/meminfo shows only 906MB. I > > tried this with both the 2.4 (kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386) and 2.6 > > (kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386) Kernels. After that I ran memtestx86 to see if I > > had malicious Memory, but it showed the full 2GB and it ran a whole day > > without showing any errors. > > > > Do I miss anything ? I believe that the standard kernel should work with > > 2GB... > > > > Another machine with 1GB Non-ECC-RAM shows the full 1GB in /proc/meminfo > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 04:55:00 UTC 2004 i686 > GNU/Linux > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1035796 863212 172584 0 83236 677888 > -/+ buffers/cache: 102088 933708 > Swap: 979832 0 979832 > > > As you can see, I have access to the full 1GB (well, not exactly 1024MB > but I supose the remaing is eated up by the kernel) > > My kernel has > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > > and it IS a stock debian kernel.... > I would suggest you to check wich kernl is running in that 1GB > non-ECC-RAM machine... I (am not sure but) believe the 686 or 686-smp > kernels have high-mem enabled. > > Good luck > Joao Clemente > > -- JerryN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
