Memory Upgrade

cccc · 11-28-2005, 01:43 PM

hi

I've on my Debian Sarge server RAM Memory from 1 GB to 2 GB upgraded.

but free shows only 1 GB:

Code:

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        905404     412220     493184          0      13164     166180
-/+ buffers/cache:     232876     672528
Swap:      2931820          0    2931820

# uname -a
Linux server.domain.net 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

howto solve this problem ?

greetings
cccc

Okie · 11-28-2005, 01:47 PM

Quote:

# uname -a
Linux server.domain.net 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

could be a kernel limitation, (just a guess)

WhatsHisName · 11-28-2005, 03:24 PM

You need to recompile the kernel and specify a 4GB RAM limit to make use of 2GB of RAM.

waterox · 12-19-2005, 03:24 AM

I recompiled and did this but I still have not firgured out how to get my full 2 gigs working. is there any suggestions?

japetto · 12-19-2005, 07:55 AM

If I remember right, during xconfig, choose "Processor type and features". There should be a setting there for maximum memory or something like that.

waterox · 12-20-2005, 03:28 PM

Well lets say that I screwed up my box by installing a newer version of glibc-devel than the actual glibc I had installed. So since I was re-installing the system... I went ahead and upgraded to kernel 2.6.14.4. This time I got the 2 gigs to be seen... wee... but now I can not get my ac97 sound card to work. Well I guess it was a trade off.