Linux version 2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb (qateam@titan.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.2.3 (4.2.3-6mnb1)) Mandriva 2008 Spring KDE 3.5.9

I have just upgraded my system from 1 to 2 GB or memory. System BIOS indicates this and the mandriva control center in detected hardware indicates 2, one Gig memory modules installed.


My question is why does kinfocenter (and /proc/meminfo) only reports 884 MB of total physical and bootloader only found 896 MB when BIOS and MCC indicates 2 GB RAM? Is my system only using 884 and not utilizing the additional memory I upgraded?



In the Mandriva control panel bootloader menu under Main option submenu Advanced
I tried to put the correct amount of memory in "Precise RAM size if needed " field box with no avail.

I'm assuming kinfocenter gets it info from /proc/meminfo because 905564 KB is approximately 884 MB


Other info
cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 905564 kB
MemFree: 41956 kB
Buffers: 24804 kB
Cached: 387872 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 547616 kB
Inactive: 268516 kB
SwapTotal: 4089920 kB
SwapFree: 4089920 kB
Dirty: 152 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 403464 kB
Mapped: 120812 kB
Slab: 25952 kB
SReclaimable: 18564 kB
SUnreclaim: 7388 kB
PageTables: 3268 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 4542700 kB
Committed_AS: 712836 kB
VmallocTotal: 122564 kB
VmallocUsed: 7896 kB
VmallocChunk: 113856 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB


cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2799.930
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up pebs bts sync_rdtsc cid xtpr
bogomips : 5601.86
clflush size : 64



Versions:
Linux version 2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb (qateam@titan.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.2.3 (4.2.3-6mnb1))
Mandriva 2008 Spring
KDE 3.5.9
Harddrake 2008.1
KDE Info Center 3.5.9


Answer: Installed kernel which supports memory greater than 890 MB

Similar problem here:

When I had 4GB RAM on my Mandriva 2008.1 Spring machine, it was detecting 3.xGB(Which was genuine I guess). But after I removed one 2GB module, my total memory is 9xx MB!

Is Mandriva sick at 2GB RAM?

--Dipu

Linux = Infinite Possibilities

kernel version 2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb doesn't support memory > 890 MB

kernel version 2.6.24.5-desktop-2mnb supports memory up to 4 GB

Solution: installed different kernel which supports memory up to 4 GB


Any kerenl with 586 extension won't support memory greater than 890 MB

Strictly speaking, the limit is 1 Gig - has been a kernel default for a long time. The "missing" bit is reserved for the the kernel to use.
That naming is peculiar to Mandriva - not a (general) standard indicating a non-highmem kernel.