[lug] help for missing memory?

[Zan Lynx]

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 09:08, Phil Rasch wrote:
> I just bought a new Dell machine with 2GB of memory. When I log in
> as root I can see all the memory. When I log in as a regular user I
> only see 896MB.
[snip]
> 
> I cant think of anything else to check.
> 
> Anybody got any advice?

You need to be running a Linux kernel with highmem support compiled in
to use more than 1 GB.

I'm not sure how you can check a running kernel for that.  There might
be a config-something file in /boot.  You'd want to see if it has
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y in it.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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