--begin quoted message from Adam Majer, > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 12:43:27PM -0500, Noah Massey wrote: > > ok, first the problem: > > my computer has 1024 M of RAM installed. > > /proc/meminfo reports: > > > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > > Mem: 923058176 460623872 462434304 0 33697792 172601344 > > Swap: 3174903808 0 3174903808 > > MemTotal: 901424 kB > > ... > > > > I'm running woody, with the 2.4.16-k7 kernel > > > > Redhat 7.1, with a 2.4.2-2 kernel had no problem detecting all my mem. > > neither did memtest86 (no errors on the full test suite) > > Did you try a different kernel?
even more interesting...
the 2.2.20 kernel reports:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 994078720 42676224 951402496 10178560 8065024 21536768
MemTotal: 970780 kB
...
which is better, but still inaccurate... (and not what I told it)
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hard drive, too bad. Although we did fix that bug from the last release.
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