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 1NPwhb-0004uQ-O9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:26:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6601AE0879; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:26:46 +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 200D1E0879 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:26:46 +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 C428BFB9C; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:26:43 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <4B3B38F2.6090006@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:26:42 +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 CC: Dirk Heinrichs , LKML Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported References: <4B3B3043.20400@asyr.hopto.org> <200912301208.54359.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> In-Reply-To: <200912301208.54359.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4cadf228-c2eb-40e5-859b-6c51006f6c95 X-Archives-Hash: 039ce63cfef1cfc5962908ffd82c5507 on 12/30/2009 01:08 PM Dirk Heinrichs wrote the following: > Am Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009 11:49:39 schrieb Thanasis: >> 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: > > With more than 1G of memory, you should set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y. > HTH... > Dirk I thought CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G had to do with more than 4GB of RAM. Now I can see that the associated help says it is for an amount between 1 and 4GB. That should be it. The option name confused me. I will try it and report back. Thanks :-)