[lug] memory issue

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Tue Mar 23 22:13:34 MST 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 22:00, Garett Shulman wrote:
> Hello again, I am also having a memory issue. I recently added a 512MB 
> dimm to the 512MB & 256MB dimms that where already in my system. The 
> bios states that it sees 1280MB of memory. However, free -m states that 
> the total memory is 883. Any ideas?

You need to build a kernel using highmem.  It's called High Memory
Support (4 GB) in the kernel config.

If you're using a distribution kernel, they should have one built for
high memory support.
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Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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