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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:34:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
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Subject: Re: 128MB lost... where ?
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Perhaps this is a faq...
> > I have a dual-800 (mb asus, no AGP) with 1GB ram,
> > but according to /proc/meminfo tells I only have
> > 900000KB. I tried "mem=1024" boot parameter without
> > success. How can I get my 128MB back ?
> > 
> 
> when you compile your 2.4.x kernel make sure you set the "4G of RAM"
> option, i.e. CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. If you chose "up to 1G" then it means "up
> to 986M" (or something like that) -- the number in Help is just rounded up
     ~~~

not 986M but (unsigned long)(-PAGE_OFFSET-VMALLOC_RESERVE)>>20 MB which is
around 876M or so.

Regards,
Tigran

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