Hi... On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 00:20, Andrzej Kardas <andrzej-kardas@xxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm little confused about amount of RAM memory in my computer and I can't > figure out where disappear about 1GB memory. I need yours help to explain > this, because i can't sleep :). Here is background: > > I've plugged into my computer 2x2GB RAM. In BIOS screen i see: > > Amount of available RAM: 4096MB > > so BIOS recognizes all 4GB, but my OS(32bit) > > uname -a > Linux lpt 2.6.33.1 #1 SMP Thu Mar 18 23:32:41 CET 2010 i686 GNU/Linux > > sees only 3014MB > > free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 3014 1756 1258 0 456 918 OK, easiest things first, could you show us: 1. the output of "grep -i highmem " toward your running kernel config file? 2. the complete entry grub/lilo stanza that is responsible to execute your current running kernel I need to see whether you're really enabling highmem support and whether you use kinda kdump etc that might reserve some space in RAM.... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
