Linux not reporting 1gb of ram

[Frank Kumro]

The machine is a custom built one. The specs are below
- AMD XP 3200
- 1gb PC3200 ram
- ASUS A7N8X-E Delux Motherboard (NForce 2 chipset)
- other misc computer stuff

This is what I placed in my lilo.conf and still /proc/meminfo doesnt
show the correct information.

image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1
  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
  root = /dev/hda6
  label = Linux(2.6.8)New
  append = "mem=1024M"
  read-only

MemTotal:       904568 kB
MemFree:        505068 kB
Buffers:         50976 kB
Cached:         266040 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         258864 kB
Inactive:       108980 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       904568 kB
LowFree:        505068 kB
SwapTotal:     1044184 kB
SwapFree:      1044184 kB
Dirty:           40560 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:          75108 kB
Slab:            20224 kB
Committed_AS:    64732 kB
PageTables:        696 kB
VmallocTotal:   122804 kB
VmallocUsed:     23868 kB
VmallocChunk:    94404 kB

GKrellm also reports 883 mb of ram total. Maybe there are some inaccuracies?


On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:57:09 -0700 (PDT), Dave Andruczyk
<djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> What kind of computer?  Dell's have an option in the BIOS called "OS install
> mode" that limits the max amount of ram seen by the OS as 256 megs.  If that's
> the case disable it. the other option is to add the "mem=1024M" to your
> bootloader. (if using lilo put it on the "append" line) if using grub put it on
> the line for your kernel definition.
> 
> remember if you use LILO as your loader you have to rerun lilo if you modify
> the conf file, it's NOT required if you use GRUB...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Frank Kumro <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have 1gb of ram on my machine and when I cat /proc/meminfo I recieve
> > this information
> >
> > total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> > Mem:  262115328 254373888  7741440        0 38125568 158715904
> > Swap: 534634496 107360256 427274240
> > MemTotal:       255972 kB
> > MemFree:          7560 kB
> > MemShared:           0 kB
> > Buffers:         37232 kB
> > Cached:         119208 kB
> > SwapCached:      35788 kB
> > Active:         122148 kB
> > Inactive:       111824 kB
> > HighTotal:           0 kB
> > HighFree:            0 kB
> > LowTotal:       255972 kB
> > LowFree:          7560 kB
> > SwapTotal:      522104 kB
> > SwapFree:       417260 kB
> >
> >
> > Shouldnt MemTotal be around  1033936 kB? Do I need to use some kind of
> > High Memory support in the kernel? FYI windoze does see 1gb of ram and
> > memtest86+ doesnt report any errors with the ram and sees 1gb. Its
> > been a rough day with linux and I :(
> >
> > --
> > Frank
> > Shenanigans!!
> >
> 
> 
> =====
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
> 
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-- 
Frank
Shenanigans!!