RHLE5- Different size of RAM memory: BIOS vs OS

[Jose R R]

Buenos días (Good morning)-


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:15 PM, obed <obed.listas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all...
> I installed RHEL5 in a sun server Sunfire x2100 it has 1 GB in RAM in
> BIOS I can see 1024 KB but in the OS look:
>
> [root at srv-lnx ~]# more /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:       896024 kB
> MemFree:        539736 kB
> [...]

Have you tried contacting the manufacturer?  Sun Microsystems supports
RHEL5.1 as well as SLES 10 SP1.  Having manufactured your AMD based x2100
and tested those Linux distributions, Sun should be able to provide some
insight.

 Hasta luego.


Jose R Rodriguez
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