From: Manuel McLure <manuel@mclure.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hardware - memory problem
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:46:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGJrxsTe6jRekEFUyWSPiqFXMQ9aea2qJFsXHgQ6VtaMynqf=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f1df618-9de7-0c51-7437-ab77bb8eab48@sys-concept.com>
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:22 PM <thelma@sys-concept.com> wrote:
> I run Memtest86 on my old box and it completed 1pass without any errors.
> Memtest86 reports 16G memory
>
> When I boot Gentoo it shows only 3282Mb
> free -m
> total used free shared buff/cache
> available
> Mem: 3282 125 2475 7 680
> 3033
>
> Is it a motherboard? How to test it?
>
>
Are you perhaps booting a 32-bit kernel? A 32 bit kernel is not going to
see all 16GB of RAM, only what fits in its 32-bit address space. You need a
64-bit kernel (or a 32-bit kernel with Physical Address Extensions enabled)
to be able to see all the RAM.
--
Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@mclure.org> <http://www.mclure.org>
...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law,
no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-16 22:22 [gentoo-user] hardware - memory problem thelma
2020-12-16 22:29 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 22:34 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 22:46 ` thelma
2020-12-16 23:01 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 23:14 ` thelma
2020-12-16 23:26 ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-16 23:39 ` Manuel McLure
2020-12-16 22:51 ` antlists
2020-12-16 23:12 ` thelma
2020-12-16 23:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-16 23:51 ` Grant Edwards
2020-12-17 4:03 ` [gentoo-user] " bobwxc
2020-12-16 22:46 ` Manuel McLure [this message]
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