----- Original Message ----- From: "Smith, Albert" <Albert.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:10 PM Subject: RE: Physical memory showing 256MB instead of 2GB > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Opesh > > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:08 AM > > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Physical memory showing 256MB instead of 2GB > > > > Hi Group, > > > > Can anyone let me know where do I need to check whats wrong??? > > > > My RHEL 3.0 ES linux machine is showing 256 MB of physical > > memory instead of 2 GB... > > > > Its a remote server and I don't have physical access to the system.... > > > > --Opss > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > Check /proc/meminfo and see what's reporting and hwbrowser. Also check > dmesg and /var/log/messages for startup errors. Does the POST show all 2 > gig of the ram? > Hi Thanks for your time on this.... here is what dmesg says.... [root@OHIO root]# [root@OHIO root]# dmesg >Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 64 KB) Memory: 250236k/262016k available (1716k kernel code, 9352k reserved, 1302k data, 228k init, 0k highmem) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K I suppose POST didn't show 2 gigs RAM..... and here is what /rpoc/meminfo [root@OHIO root]# cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 258834432 210296832 48537600 0 63729664 56356864 Swap: 4194848768 0 4194848768 MemTotal: 252768 kB MemFree: 47400 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 62236 kB Cached: 55036 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 166940 kB ActiveAnon: 61712 kB ActiveCache: 105228 kB Inact_dirty: 9176 kB Inact_laundry: 2808 kB Inact_clean: 0 kB Inact_target: 35784 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 252768 kB LowFree: 47400 kB SwapTotal: 4096532 kB SwapFree: 4096532 kB CommitLimit: 4222916 kB Committed_AS: 351360 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB [root@OHIO root]# > Albert Smith > Sr. Unix Systems Administrator > HPCSA, RHCT > Genex Services > 440 E. Swedesford Rd. > Wayne, PA 19087 > albert.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > (610) 964-5154 > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
