System Memory Question

FourierXForm · 06-27-2006, 02:22 PM

I received a Dell Server that was supposed to come with 2GB of system memory (4x512MB). After installing Slackware 10.2 and upgrading to the 2.6 kernel, I noticed that it reports the following:

Code:

usr@host:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        905416     874368      31048          0      21792     755116
-/+ buffers/cache:      97460     807956
Swap:      2097136      71368    2025768
usr@host:~$

That is only 1GB of memory. The same is beeing reported by "top".

I checked and it does indeed have 4x512MB sticks. Any clues?

Thx!!

the_real_absinthe · 06-27-2006, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FourierXForm

I received a Dell Server that was supposed to come with 2GB of system memory (4x512MB). After installing Slackware 10.2 and upgrading to the 2.6 kernel, I noticed that it reports the following:

Code:

usr@host:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        905416     874368      31048          0      21792     755116
-/+ buffers/cache:      97460     807956
Swap:      2097136      71368    2025768
usr@host:~$

That is only 1GB of memory. The same is beeing reported by "top".

I checked and it does indeed have 4x512MB sticks. Any clues?

Thx!!

did you enable the kernel option to manage large rams? the so called "high memory support"

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cwwilson721 · 06-27-2006, 03:43 PM

Yep. You need 'high memory support' for anything over 800MB