Re: System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
Rick Stevens <[email protected]>
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On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, Ronald Mccarty wrote: > Hey, > > Hope someone can give me some help here... > > I have a Dell 1850 with 4 X 1 GB memory sticks that the linux kernel is only recognizing 256 MB...well actually 249 it's reporting: > > [root@asvhyp1 proc]# free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 249 98 150 0 8 64 > -/+ buffers/cache: 24 224 > Swap: 2047 0 2047 > > > I originally thought it was a Xen / Kernel issue; however, booting the system to a non zen kernel reports the same issue. (dmesg is reporting 256 MB low mem, and no high) > > It seems like I saw something years ago when getting 32-bit systems to see 4 GB was more magic than science, but I'm stumped. > > The Dell BIOS is showing the 4 GB. > > If you don't have any insight, maybe some tips on helpful commands would be useful. We need to know what RHEL version you're running. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer [email protected] - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell is a carrier! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: [email protected] Subject: unsubscribe