LFS sees only 900mb of RAM
Hi. I have a problem. My newly built LFS system sees only 900 mb of RAM, even if BIOS registers 2 GB. Probably, I've made a mistake during kernel configuration, but have no idea what mistake.
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-bash-4.1# uname -r && head /proc/meminfo |
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Could you post/attach the output of the dmesg command and the kernels .config file? BTW: One thing that does come to mind: Could the memory installed be faulty? Do you have any way of checking if all is picked up correct by another linux/windows OS? Hope this helps. |
This may be bug in the BIOS which might report incorrect memory map to Linux. But it's just a guess, to properly understand this we need output of dmesg command.
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It is rather not a memory faulty. Everything works fine on Microsoft systems.
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Have you tried setting High Memory Support to 64G? I know you don't have that much ram, but it will enable CONFIG_X86_PAE, which could (hopefully) help. I have 4G RAM, only 2G is detected when I run with High Memory Support 4G, it is detected when I run with the 64G setting. Also 895MB is, to my knowledge, the LOWMEM threshold and that is all you seem to have available (Warning only 895MB will be used). Hope this helps. |
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Did you try both options given in the previous posts or only the High Memory Support 4G? |
Can you give a hint where this PAE option is? Because I haven't found it yet.
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Now, the proper value of RAM memory available is being displayed.
Thank you guys very much for help. I am wondering why this happened. Is there any reasonable explanation why it's necessary to compile kernel with High Memory Support 64GB even if I have only 2GB? |
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From experience I've noticed that activating PAE (High Memory Support 64G) seems to solve these problems. BTW: If this is solved, would you put up the SOLVED tag (above post #1 -> Thread Tools). |
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