[lug] Strange memory problem ...

[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

Hello,

i just found something really strange: i observed some funny
vm warnings opn a server that went online recently. 
Looking at the bootup mesages i realized that the box seems
tro come up with only 64Mb of memory as opposed to the 512 
it should have. Since the server was shipped by the hardware
manufacturer after i installed the OS and they did a bios
upgrade prior to shipping it i wasn't shure whether i messed
something up or they did or the memory went bad. So i dug out 
the tarball i made before shipping and had a look at the log
files (see attached excerpts). Now, has anyone on this list
seen similar erratic behaviour?


  tomas at edoras:~/aiolos.tmp$ grep Memory /var/log/messages 
  Nov 23 15:55:04 aiolos kernel: Memory: 515428k/524288k available (...)
  Nov 23 17:12:26 aiolos kernel: Memory: 515428k/524288k available (...)
  Nov 23 17:20:07 aiolos kernel: Memory: 515428k/524288k available (...)
  Nov 23 17:25:40 aiolos kernel: Memory: 44992k/49152k available (...)
  Nov 23 17:29:17 aiolos kernel: Memory: 45936k/49152k available (...)
  Nov 23 17:49:24 aiolos kernel: Memory: 515428k/524288k available (...)
  Nov 23 18:02:55 aiolos kernel: Memory: 44992k/49152k available (...)
  Nov 23 18:17:38 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 23 18:31:10 aiolos kernel: Memory: 62224k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 23 18:44:37 aiolos kernel: Memory: 62224k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 23 18:48:35 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 23 19:42:09 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 23 20:44:45 aiolos kernel: Memory: 62224k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 23 20:49:38 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 23 20:52:55 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 23 20:58:29 aiolos kernel: Memory: 62224k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 12:09:22 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 12:49:19 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 13:04:42 aiolos kernel: Memory: 62224k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 13:24:07 aiolos kernel: Memory: 62224k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 13:39:52 aiolos kernel: Memory: 62224k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 13:49:22 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 14:21:48 aiolos kernel: Memory: 63168k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 14:23:44 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64272k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 15:03:51 aiolos kernel: Memory: 62224k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 15:18:15 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64144k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 15:57:49 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 16:35:12 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 23:16:47 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 24 23:26:07 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 25 13:05:26 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 25 21:19:50 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 26 12:29:52 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 26 12:41:49 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 26 15:49:04 aiolos kernel: Memory: 46768k/49024k available (...)
  Nov 26 15:51:39 aiolos kernel: Memory: 46768k/49024k available (...)
  Nov 26 15:59:46 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  Nov 28 13:49:46 aiolos kernel: Memory: 64128k/66556k available (...)
  tomas at edoras:~/aiolos.tmp$ exit


Ralf