[Bug 267119] New: memory being reported incorrectly
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267119 Summary: memory being reported incorrectly Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: qwilson1843@yahoo.com QAContact: qa@suse.de I have found the total amount of memory being reported by meminfo does not match kcore. The machine has a total of 4 gig which is correct and correctly reported by /proc/kcore and: hwinfo --memory 01: None 00.0: 10102 Main Memory [Created at memory.61] Unique ID: rdCR.CxwsZFjVASF Hardware Class: memory Model: "Main Memory" Memory Range: 0x00000000-0xffeafbff (rw) Memory Size: 4 GB Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown However when looking at /proc/meminfo you only see: cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3076632 kB MemFree: 482504 kB Buffers: 119300 kB Cached: 1093340 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1823332 kB Inactive: 631408 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 3076632 kB LowFree: 482504 kB SwapTotal: 4208944 kB SwapFree: 4208944 kB Dirty: 1220 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1242072 kB Mapped: 177132 kB Slab: 91300 kB PageTables: 18936 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB CommitLimit: 5747260 kB Committed_AS: 2166680 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 49072 kB VmallocChunk: 34359686651 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB The hardware is a ASUS A8SX motherboard with an AMD FX-60 processor and 4, 1 gig sticks installed. uname -a Linux xxxx-dog 2.6.18.8-0.1-default #1 SMP Fri Mar 2 13:51:59 UTC 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux top reports: Mem: 3076632k total -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267119 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |snwint@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267119 snwint@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|snwint@novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267119 gregkh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel- |ak@novell.com |maintainers@forge.provo.nove| |ll.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267119 ak@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |qwilson1843@yahoo.com ------- Comment #1 from ak@novell.com 2007-04-25 17:26 MST ------- Can you add your /var/log/boot.msg please? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267119 qwilson1843@yahoo.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|qwilson1843@yahoo.com | ------- Comment #2 from qwilson1843@yahoo.com 2007-04-26 06:19 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=134871) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=134871&action=view) /var/log/boot.msg -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267119 ak@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |qwilson1843@yahoo.com ------- Comment #3 from ak@novell.com 2007-04-26 06:28 MST ------- Your memory controller seems to be misconfigured. Or rather Linux tries to read the NUMA configuration from the northbridge and that only goes to 4GB. So it creates only a node upto 4GB. Do you see all memory when you boot with numa=off? <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable) <6>DMI 2.3 present. <7>ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x00000000000fad60 <7>ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x09000604 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x00000000bff10000 <7>ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x09000604 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x00000000bff10200 <7>ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x09000604 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x00000000bff10390 <7>ACPI: OEMB (v001 A M I AMI_OEM 0x09000604 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x00000000bff20040 <7>ACPI: DSDT (v001 A0217 A0217001 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x0000000000000000 <6>Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24 <6>Number of nodes 1 <6>Node 0 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 0000000100000000 <7>NUMA: Using 63 for the hash shift. <6>Using node hash shift of 63 <6>Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000100000000 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=267119 qwilson1843@yahoo.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|qwilson1843@yahoo.com | ------- Comment #4 from qwilson1843@yahoo.com 2007-04-26 12:52 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=135287) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=135287&action=view) boot.msg with numa=off numa=off does not make a difference for top or meminfo but you can see it was turned off in the attached log. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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