Ubuntu RAM detection

[Dave Germiquet]

Hey Tyler,

So:

cat /proc/meminfo shows one gig?





On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
>
> Anyone know why my system would detect all my RAM (2GB) on boot, but
> only find about 1GB when linux is booted up? Ubuntu 8/32-bit,
> self-rolled 2.6.25.9 kernel, on Dual-core Athlon 64. Various apps
> including "Top" etc only show about a gig of RAM. Not sure if this has
> something to do with running a 32-bit OS on 64-bit hardware (doubt it,
> I'm under the 4GB/CPU limit), something weird with the
> SMP/memory-sharing, (64-bit memory & IO resources not enabled in
> kernel), or some other issue?
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
> - Tyler
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