[Fedora-xen] Not seeing all RAM

Itamar Reis Peixoto itamar at ispbrasil.com.br
Tue Jul 3 04:42:35 UTC 2007


try a new xen kernel

run a yum update


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Itamar Reis Peixoto

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu" <m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca>
To: <fedora-xen at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 1:27 AM
Subject: [Fedora-xen] Not seeing all RAM


> Hello,
> 
> I'm running a FC6 dom0, with kernel version,
> kernel-xen-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 on a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC.  I just
> upgraded it from 1 GB (2 x 512 MB modules) to 3 GB (2 x 1 GB + 2 x 512
> MB).  The BIOS sees all of the ram, but kernel does not.  All I see when
> I run free is this:
> 
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
> Mem:       2454528     207876    2246652          0      11032
> 47380
> -/+ buffers/cache:     149464    2305064
> Swap:       524280          0     524280
> 
> It looks like 512 MB is missing.
> 
> Here's a bit more detail from dmesg:
> 
> Memory: 2874124k/2987900k available (2166k kernel code, 104532k
> reserved, 1100k data, 184k init, 2242436k highmem)
> 
> So, what happened to the rest of the RAM?  I should add that the server
> is updated with the latest firmware and BIOS.
> 
> BTW, I appear to be having problems with one of my domUs now too (after
> the ram upgrade).  A PCI device I was handing to the domU is now causing
> the domU kernel to panic, crashing the domU.  I'll try to get a copy of
> the error message.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ranbir
> -- 
> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
> Linux 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 
> 00:17:27 up 10:25, 2 users, load average: 0.68, 0.43, 0.26 
> 
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