[lug] memory issue

Garett Shulman shulmang at colorado.edu
Wed Mar 24 16:29:31 MST 2004


Thank you! kernel highmem support did the trick.

Zan Lynx wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 22:00, Garett Shulman wrote:
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>>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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