Re: 884MB instead of 1024MB memory and HIGHMEM enabled

From: Dave Ewart (davee_at_sungate.co.uk)
Date: 08/02/05

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    Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:16:07 +0100
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    On Tuesday, 02.08.2005 at 13:06 +0200, sYs wrote:

    > Recently I have changed my kernel from 2.4.31-grsec to 2.6.11.12-grsec
    > and I can't resolve this problem:
    > After changing my OS (Debian Etch), it sees only 884 MB of the physical
    > memory but i have 1Gbyte (2x512MB) installed in my box and HIGHMEM (4gb)
    > support is already enabled.
    >
    > free -m:
    > total used free shared buffers cached
    > Mem: 884 875 8 0 7 443
    > -/+ buffers/cache: 425 459
    > Swap: 1953 0 1953
    >
    > cat /boot/config-2.6.11.12-grsec |grep -i mem:
    > CONFIG_SHMEM=y
    > # CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM is not set
    > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
    > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
    > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
    > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
    > # Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
    > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
    > CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_KMEM=y
    > CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_MEMMAP=y
    > # CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_BIGMEM is not set
    >
    > What should i do? Sry for my bad english and thanks you for youre
    > answers! :>

    Can you be sure that this config really relates to your running kernel?

    Do you have a shared RAM display card installed which is using some of
    the RAM?

    (Just two random thoughts really - you appear to have everything
    correctly set up!)

    Dave. 

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