Re: [SLUG] RAM errors

From: Austin Theen (austin@austintheen.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 15:09:21 EST


On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:48 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Eben King wrote:

[...snip...]

> Memory: 904484k/917504k available (1108k kernel code, 12632k reserved, 406k
> data, 96k init, 0k highmem)
>
> 904580 KB =~ 883 MB. What happened to the other 140-and-change MB? Is it
> possible for a DIMM to be bad in such a way that it operates fine, but with
> a lower capacity?

Make sure your kernel is compiled with CONFIG_HIGHMEM=Y for support of
memory above ~960mb.. There is also a kernel option to support more than
4G of memory CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G...

Austin

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