There is an option in the kernel that will make it "see" all the 4GB. Set the option for up o 64GB in the kernel and you may use your 4GB.
On 1/24/08, Hal Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahh, but it won't last... > > $ free > total used free shared > buffers cached > Mem: 2059824 2044512 15312 0 37636 50868 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1956008 103816 > Swap: 4289308 1229024 3060284 > > Now this I can live with... > > $ free > total used free shared > buffers cached > Mem: 3629832 3499156 130676 0 56644 3070796 > -/+ buffers/cache: 371716 3258116 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > Unfortunately that machine is 32bit and thus only supports ~3.6GB of the > 4GB of RAM. :-( > > -Hal > > Michael Higgins wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:44:53 +0100 > > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> On Montag, 21. Januar 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: > >> > >>> So, I just got 2 GB of RAM in the mail. Whoo hoo. > >>> > >>> Before I pop these in, soliciting any thoughts about the following: > >>> > >>> zcat /proc/config.gz |grep MEM > >>> CONFIG_SHMEM=y > >>> # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set > >>> # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set > >>> CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > >>> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > >>> CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > >>> CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y > >>> CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y > >>> # CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM_MANUAL is not set > >>> # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set > >>> CONFIG_FLATMEM=y > >>> CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y > >>> # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_STATIC is not set > >>> CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y > >>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set > >>> # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set > >>> # CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set > >>> CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y > >>> > >>> > >>> Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] > >>> Size (MB) > >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> --- hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 > >>> 256.50 hda2 Primary Linux swap / > >>> Solaris 1024.46 hda3 Primary Linux > >>> ext3 21480.44 hda5 Logical > >>> Linux ReiserFS 28771.84 hda6 > >>> Logical Linux ReiserFS 28493.15 > >>> > >>> IOW, do I need to/should I recompile my kernel or change partition > >>> sizes? > >>> > >> if you don't plan to try suspend-to-disk. > >> No > >> > >> even if you plan to try suspend-to-disk it might work with a > >> swapfile. So still no. > >> > > > > Thanks for the feedback. I figured I'd be covered with the setup as it > > is, but you never know... unless you know. This thing never sleeps... > > so no worries there. > > > > Anyway, I just popped 'em in: > > > > $ free > > total used free shared buffers > cached > > Mem: 2074548 166048 1908500 0 > 6812 77284 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 81952 1992596 > > Swap: 1000432 0 1000432 > > > > [ Nice. I like that last line a lot. ] > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
