On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:46 -0400, Mark Hansen wrote: > I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of > memory. Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run > multiple virtual machines. > > Problem - I can only "see" 4GB of memory. Here is the output from > "free -m": > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3995 3908 86 0 145 2668 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1094 2901 > Swap: 2047 0 2047 > > > What do I need to do in order to make the other 2GB of memory available?
Build your own kernel, setting the appropriate HIGHMEM option. $ grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.12-1-386 CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. Jack Handey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
