[Leaplist] Only seeing 3G memory

[Gray Frost]

I have SSH'd in before but haven't mastered the technique of getting past my
company firewall.  It was explained to me how I could go through an open
port but I did not figure it out. Someday though.. someday.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Sun State Martial Arts <
ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com> wrote:

>  Gray Frost wrote:
>
> Thanks Bryan,
> I am at work now but will post uname -a when I get home.  I did that to
> verify the 64 bit install and it seemed to check out but will post it later.
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>wrote:
>
>> From: Gray Frost <grayf327 at gmail.com>
>> > I just install 4G ram in a 64B machine and the bios and
>> > Fedora 9 x64 are only seeing about 3g (2882560k) of it.
>>
>>  The BIOS you say?  Then you have an issue with how the BIOS
>> is setting up the memory controller registers.  Sometimes
>> the OS can overcome those, but many times they represent
>> a greater issue with how the BIOS-chipset limits access.
>>
>> Even though the memory controller is on the AMD processor,
>> the mainboard can still have trace/setup issues.  A lot of
>> early AMD64 platforms from various, "cheap" OEMs totally
>> screwed up various 40-bit/1TiB AMD addressing support.
>>
>> > The machine is a Amd64 T6212 e-machine that the manuals/
>> > charts says it can use all 4  Gigs.
>> > I didn't know if there was something in the bios I need
>> > to adjust.  I did see there is a  setting for "Mermory hole"
>> > whatever that is? I set it to see but no diff.
>>
>>  That setting may vary.
>>
>> > [root at localhost ~]# free
>> >              total       used       free     shared
>> > buffers     cached
>> > Mem:       2834592     565048    2269544          0
>> > 11720     228192
>> > -/+ buffers/cache:     325136    2509456
>> > Swap:      2031608          0    2031608
>> > Any ideas?
>>
>>  What does this give you?
>>  uname -a
>>
>>
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>> b.j.smith at ieee.org  http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith
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>  if you have ssh mapped at your home router and enabled on your home Linux
> system, then install putty.  it is a windows based ssh client that is very
> small and works great.  once you are logged in, then you can run the uname
> -a command with no issues.
>
> you will need either an IP for the house or a dynamic DNS name application
> like dyndns.
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