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Old 12-07-2006, 04:56 PM   #1
jr8rdt
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/proc/meminfo gives wrong info


Hello
I have 8GB of RAM however /proc/meminfo only gives me 4GB.
Anybody know why ?
is it because the other 4GB is not recognized or limitation with /proc/meminfo or wrong command ?
anyother command line I can use ?


total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 4055236608 796143616 3259092992 0 72134656 211320832
Swap: 2093129728 0 2093129728
MemTotal: 3960192 kB
MemFree: 3182708 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 70444 kB
Cached: 206368 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 491168 kB
ActiveAnon: 366768 kB
ActiveCache: 124400 kB
Inact_dirty: 152196 kB
Inact_laundry: 0 kB
Inact_clean: 0 kB
Inact_target: 128672 kB
HighTotal: 3104728 kB
HighFree: 2524704 kB
LowTotal: 855464 kB
LowFree: 658004 kB
SwapTotal: 2044072 kB
SwapFree: 2044072 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
 
Old 12-07-2006, 06:20 PM   #2
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Just guessing here, but you may need to recompile your kernel to enable High Memory Support (under the Processor Type and Features section). I know there is a 4G option, and there may be a 64G option. If so, enable 64. I'm not at a Linux box right now so I can't verify this myself, but I'd suggest it would be a reasonable first place to look
 
Old 12-07-2006, 06:37 PM   #3
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As per J.W., to see what you currently have configured, try something like
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grep -i highmem /boot/<configfile>
 
  


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