DL360 with 2GB RAM but only 1GB 'seen' by linux

ecosta · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 477 Location: Brussels,BE

Hi all

Gentoo 2006.0 minimal installation as 32bit rahter than 64bit.

I just got a DL360G4p which I installed with no problem except that it can only see 1GB out of the 2GB RAM I have installed. The BIOS can see the 2GB.

Can you help?

I enabled the following in the kernel:

Keruskerfuerst · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

How do you proove, that only 1GB is seen?
How much swap space is on the disk?

ecosta · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 477 Location: Brussels,BE

well...

# free -m; top -i -n 1
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 884 149 735 0 24 90
-/+ buffers/cache: 34 849
Swap: 1912 0 1912

top - 16:49:21 up 1:21, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.13, 0.31
Tasks: 45 total, 1 running, 44 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.9% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.4% id, 0.4% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 905304k total, 152652k used, 752652k free, 25176k buffers
Swap: 1958392k total, 0k used, 1958392k free, 92328k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
12460 root 15 0 2032 976 752 R 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 top
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Genone · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

Hmm, looks like the kernel doesn't have HIGHMEM support, try

ecosta · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 477 Location: Brussels,BE

I'll give it a go as soon as I get to the office

Thanks for the tip.

Oh and happy 3 years on this site (+1 day

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dsd · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject:

also compare the output of "uname -v" to the date shown in "ls -l /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage" - they should be almost identical
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ecosta · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 477 Location: Brussels,BE

Thanks for that dsd... but what the hell are you talking about?!?

I was asking for a sollution to my RAM problem and noticed Genone had been on the board for 3 years almost to the day.

Am I missing something? :roll:

-Ed
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Genone · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject:

ecosta · Guru Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 477 Location: Brussels,BE

Apologies to all and especially to dsd who was so right

I was indeed using the previous kernel due to a bad '4yy' 'p' in grub.cong

Now I can see my 2GB RAM and can emerge -e world

I had made the 'HIGHMEM' change but wasn't using it.

Thank you both for your help
-Ed
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