[Leaplist] Only seeing 3G memory

[Steve Litt]

Hey Gray,

Just for fun, try booting and going into the bios, and see if you can find a 
memory amount within the bios setup screens. That will tell you whether the 
hardware/bios isn't seeing it, or whether Linux isn't seeing it.

SteveT

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 12:21:26 am Gray Frost wrote:
> This is my meminfo:
>
>
> @localhost ~]$ head /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:      2835288 kB
> MemFree:       2038288 kB
> Buffers:         14896 kB
> Cached:         296064 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:         519504 kB
> Inactive:       189280 kB
> SwapTotal:     2031608 kB
> SwapFree:      2031608 kB
> Dirty:              88 kB
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Steve Litt 
<slitt at troubleshooters.com>wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 October 2008 08:02:49 pm Gray Frost wrote:
> > > I hear what you are saying about motherboards and chipsets not able to
> >
> > read
> >
> > > more than 4 gig but this one is advertised and reviewed as having that
> > > capability.
> >
> > I had no idea this was a problem. I guess I got lucky on my new computer:
> >
> > [slitt at mydesk ~]$ head /proc/meminfo
> > MemTotal:      8302156 kB
> > MemFree:       7208548 kB
> > Buffers:        130496 kB
> > Cached:         548688 kB
> > SwapCached:          0 kB
> > Active:         436012 kB
> > Inactive:       516796 kB
> > HighTotal:     7461376 kB
> > HighFree:      6609788 kB
> > LowTotal:       840780 kB
> > [slitt at mydesk ~]$
> >
> > SteveT
> >
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