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Dear All

It is first time that I see this, I have 1 Gb of RAM in dual boot system (windos/linux fedora 2), but linux reports only 907228 Kb as total physical memory (cat /proc/meminfo)
but windows sees the whole lot (1Gb), I am not sure why I am seeing this difference.
My system

AThlon 3000+
Abit NFS-2
1 crucial 512 MB unbuffered
1 corsair 512 MB unbuffered
Fedora core 2
kernel 2.6.7
Gforce 4 Ti 4200 (128 MB)

I am able to play games in windows without problem, so I assume that I don't
have bad memory, well I should run mem86 (too lazy :) ). The bios settings are
normal I am not overclocking.

regards

Paulo

Here's my output - 2 sticks of Kingston 512MB DDR333

Code:

mingdao@paul:~$ cat /proc/meminfo

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:

Mem:  1057173504 332107776 725065728        0 64368640 109965312

Swap: 1044570112        0 1044570112

MemTotal:      1032396 kB

MemFree:        708072 kB

MemShared:          0 kB

Buffers:        62860 kB

Cached:        107388 kB

SwapCached:          0 kB

Active:          61152 kB

Inactive:      202280 kB

HighTotal:      130992 kB

HighFree:        2044 kB

LowTotal:      901404 kB

LowFree:        706028 kB

SwapTotal:    1020088 kB

SwapFree:      1020088 kB

You must have this compiled in your kernel for the entire 1GB:

# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_HIGHIO=y

That's with a 2.4.26 kernel. You must use the high memory option 4G

Windows users always ask this same question over and over again. I'm going to be gentle. Do a search in this forum.

thanks for the answer

I am not a windows user, but I never had this much memory before.
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