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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:52:04 -0400
From: Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory
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mark@laeb ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem
MemTotal:      1034284 kB
MemFree:        953172 kB


Thanks for the tip.  But strangely, 12mb is still missing.

On 7/24/05, Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer@legolas.dynup.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 24 July 2005 22:21, Mark Shields wrote:
> > No I do not, as I was under the impression it's not required unless
> > you have at least 4gb (sorry for the poor formatting, copying from
> > putty/terminal to a text box doesn't format very well):
>=20
> well the -mm kernel does not have this option anymore, but IIRC you nee=
d to
> select 4G support to enable the rest of your memory.
>=20
> > Linux Kernel v2.6.11-gentoo-r6 Configuration
> >      =82=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=
=80=80
> > High Memory Support
> >  =80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=80=
=80=83
> >      =81  Use the arrow keys to navigate this window or press the hot=
key of =81
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>=20
> did you read the help asociated with each item?
>=20
> > All 3 memory sticks appear fine.  The motherboard is an A7N8X Deluxe,
> > my main PC has an A7N8X-E Deluxe; both of them are capable of using
> > 3gb of memory, 1gb per stick (3 slots for memory).  The 2 x 256 mb
> > sticks came from my main PC which I upgraded with 2 x 512mb sticks.
> > The 512mb stick has been in use by the server for 4 months. I could
> > understand if it was possible that they're incompatible, but then it
> > wouldn't show a gig of RAM when the PC shows the bios screen.
> > Regardless, I'll run memtest86 overnight to be sure.  I'll also see
> > what an ubuntu or knoppix livecd shows.
>=20
> I'm sure you will not see any hardware failures, it has something todo =
with
> the split user/kernel that you only see ~800MB of ram.
>=20
> enable highmem support for 4G and you will be able to use all of your m=
emory.
>=20
>         Rudmer
>=20
> --
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>=20
>=20


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- Mark Shields

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