Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261664AbVEPOna (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 10:43:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261668AbVEPOn3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 10:43:29 -0400 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:50139 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261664AbVEPOnZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2005 10:43:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4288B1BC.5050207@didntduck.org> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:44:12 -0400 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Parpart CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: I'm having 4GB RAM, but Linux sees just 3GB??? References: <200505161604.10881.trapni@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200505161604.10881.trapni@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1523 Lines: 42 Christian Parpart wrote: > Hi all, > > I was asking this in gentoo-server mailing list before, however, they finally > pointed me to this place as it could also be a bug in the kernel. > > I'm having a TYAN board with two AMD Opteron 248 and 4x 1GB ECC RAM on it. The > BIOS reflects what I've plugged in, however, the operating system does not. > > my `uname -a` output is: > Linux battousai 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Sat May 14 02:42:15 CEST 2005 x86_64 > AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > and my `dmidecode` output is located at [0]. For ANY reason, dmidecode even > knows about my 4GB RAM, but `free -m` nor `kinfocenter` of KDE claims to see > just 3GB. > > free -m: > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3015 2993 22 0 15 2638 > -/+ buffers/cache: 338 2677 > Swap: 511 1 510 > > This is rather sad to see 1GB RAM plugged in for nothing. > > Has anyone a hint for my WHY this is happening and HOW I could get rid of it? > > Thanks in advance, > Christian Parpart. > > [0] http://dev.gentoo.org/~trapni/dmidecode.txt > Are you running a 64-bit kernel? What does "dmesg | grep e820" show? -- Brian Gerst - 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/