On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:33 -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
> My BIOS shows all my RAM, but when I boot up linux it does not see all the
> RAM
>
> I have two one GIG sticks of RAM, which show up in my bios, but when
> typing free, I see that it only shows 256Megs.
>
> Is there a way to specify the amount of RAM if linux cannot detect this,
> or how can I fix/tweak the OS to recognize the amount of RAM
>
> my OS is centos-4-x86_64 on a DELL 1850
>
> [root@smtcorav02 ~ ]# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 251360 220136 31224 0 3932 64748
> -/+ buffers/cache: 151456 99904
> Swap: 524280 0 524280
>
>
Some video cards swipe some ram, maybe this is what you are seeing. I
have also seen hardware based agents swipe ram as well.
Regards,
Ted
