Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265036AbUD3FAl (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:00:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265060AbUD3FAl (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:00:41 -0400 Received: from [216.150.199.16] ([216.150.199.16]:64954 "EHLO mail.aspsys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265036AbUD3FAj (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:00:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:00:38 -0600 From: Bryan Stillwell To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual Opteron 248s w/ 8GB RAM on Tyan K8W (S2885) Message-ID: <20040430050038.GA27617@aspsys.com> References: <20040428225331.GA19698@aspsys.com> <200404300005.02814.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040429211733.GD15563@aspsys.com> <20040430021516.GA18664@zero> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040430021516.GA18664@zero> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1049 Lines: 24 On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:15:16PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: >On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:17:33PM -0600, Bryan Stillwell wrote: >> During the 20% chance of it actually booting up, I've been able to >> capture /proc/meminfo. It reports MemTotal as 7642992 kB. I've been >> told that Tyan boards allocate almost 0.5GB for some reason for their > >interesting. where'd you hear that? mine has 2gigs and is using just under >24megs. i wonder what it's doing with all that. I don't have any theories on what they use it for, but one of the other production engineers at my new job says it has been that way with multiple previous boards from Tyan we've used. Bryan -- Aspen Systems, Inc. | http://www.aspsys.com/ Production Engineer | Phone: (303)431-4606 bryans@aspsys.com | Fax: (303)431-7196 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/