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2.4.6 Pre 5 Not see all available RAM

DISCUSSION Stuart Haas 2 participants 2 messages Jun 27, 2001

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Hi All,

I have discovered that while running 2.4.6pre5, the kernel does not see all available RAM - I have 1GB and the kernel only sees ~899MB. The stock Redhat 7.1 kernel sees the full 1024MB. Adding mem=1024M on boot does not help either.

I'm running an IBM x340, dual 1GHz cpu.

Have I missed something?

Stuart

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I have discovered that while running 2.4.6pre5, the kernel does not see all available RAM - I have 1GB and the kernel only sees ~899MB.

The 1GB memory option in the kernel configuration is really the 896MB memory option. So for more than 896MB, you need to select the 4GB memory option, which really is 4GB.

Wayne