System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
Ronald Mccarty
mccarty at yournetguard.com
Fri Jan 8 01:46:44 UTC 2010
Yes indeed. RHEL 5.4. 5.3 on this same system did not have the issue. Brand new install...
--ron
On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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 at 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.
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