From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NPw7n-0001KK-DJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:49:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7913CE07F1; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.vergina.dyndns.org (62.1.125.199.dsl.dyn.forthnet.gr [62.1.125.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C00E07F1 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (dwarfy.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.13]) by poseidon.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1607FB9C; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:49:39 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <4B3B3043.20400@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:49:39 +0200 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091229 Thunderbird/3.0 ThunderBrowse/3.2.6.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, LKML Subject: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 097857db-cb1c-4052-baad-12449da12be8 X-Archives-Hash: fb8af36b10775aa0be2ffb2ef10bb90d I have a netbook (Acer Aspire One A110L) and installed a 1GB DDR2 in the available slot, for a total of 1.5GB or RAM. The BIOS reports it as 1.5GB and so does grml linux (booting from usb), but the installed gentoo linux reports only 904600 kB: # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 904600 82316 822284 0 9752 37712 -/+ buffers/cache: 34852 869748 Swap: 1638588 0 1638588 # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 904600 kB MemFree: 822284 kB Buffers: 9752 kB Cached: 37712 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 32232 kB Inactive: 28780 kB Active(anon): 13848 kB Inactive(anon): 0 kB Active(file): 18384 kB Inactive(file): 28780 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 1638588 kB SwapFree: 1638588 kB Dirty: 4 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 13548 kB Mapped: 11256 kB Shmem: 300 kB Slab: 10356 kB SReclaimable: 6132 kB SUnreclaim: 4224 kB KernelStack: 1424 kB PageTables: 892 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2090888 kB Committed_AS: 73552 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 9688 kB VmallocChunk: 109832 kB DirectMap4k: 11832 kB DirectMap4M: 905216 kB I suspect it has to do with my kernel (2.6.32-gentoo-r1) configuration, but do not know where to look. Any suggestions ?