Memory not visible... (SOLVED)

podollb · Apprentice Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 190

Hi,

I have a system with 4GB of ram that I have gentoo installed on. The problem is that gentoo only see's a small portion of that. Can anyone tell me how to get it to recognize all of it? I have verified that the hardware detects it all at boot, and even does a memory check counting all the memory.

server # free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 883 548 335 0 12 481
-/+ buffers/cache: 55 828
Swap: 2864 2 2862

Thanks
Ben

ekutay · l33t Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Berlin

activate highmem in your kernel.
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podollb · Apprentice Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 190

Is that what the problem is? Or is that just a possible solution?

mark_alec · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:25 am Post subject:

Activating the high-mem option in your kernel will solve the issue.

ekutay · l33t Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Berlin

thewally · l33t Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 703 Location: Genova

This way:

Processor type and features ---> High Memory Support (Off) ---> 4GB

The Wally

podollb · Apprentice Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 190

Yep that was the problem, thanks!