Re: [opensuse] Why does 10.3 x86_64 only see 3gig of memory?

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* David C. Rankin [01-08-09 21:30]:

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Listmates,

I'm totally confused as to why my 10.3 x86_64 box is only using 3 out of 4 gig of memory. It was running 2 gig and I added 2 gig today. All four are good sticks of OCZ platinum DDR400 on the Gigabyte 8KE S2865 board with an Opteron 180 processor. I have other i586 10.3 boxes running and recognizing 4 gig with the big-smp kernel, but I was under the impression that the x86_64 default kernel could address up to 64 gig of memory.

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Socket Designation: Socket 939

I have this socket and had to change the bios to not reserve above 3.2g for system processes (if memory serves).

anyway, it is a bios issue.

21:35 wahoo:~ # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4049792 3737448 312344 0 88264 1166696

Patrick, You nailed that one. It took two tries. One, setting both hardware and software memory hole remapping to enabled got all the memory back and then two, disabling software memory hole remapping because it was unnecessary left me in a good configuration: 21:30 nirvana:~> free -tm total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3706 440 3266 0 12 217 -/+ buffers/cache: 209 3496 Swap: 2055 0 2055 Total: 5761 440 5321 You would think they could come up with better names for this besides "software memory hole remapping" and "hardware memory hole remapping". Live and learn. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org