Bug 62123 - bigmem kernel sees only 4.7GB of 5GB on a pe6450
Summary: bigmem kernel sees only 4.7GB of 5GB on a pe6450
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 65284
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-27 18:44 UTC by Clay Cooper
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:41 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-04-22 20:44:12 UTC
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dmesg output (14.96 KB, text/plain)
2002-03-27 19:03 UTC, Clay Cooper 		no flags Details
/var/log/messages for 6450 w/ hampton gold installed (53.59 KB, text/plain)
2002-04-22 20:44 UTC, Clay Cooper 		no flags Details
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Description Clay Cooper 2002-03-27 18:44:13 UTC 
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Description of problem:
On a pe6450 w/ hampton beta3 installed (2.4.18-0.4bigmem), w/ bios A10, 5GB ram,
2GB swap.

Machine bios reports 5GB

Bigmem kernel sees 4.7GB of 5GB.

Smp/Up kernel sees 3.7GB of 4GB.

I checked a pe8450 w/ 6GB ram and bigmem reported all 6GB.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install hampton beta3 on a pe6450 w/ >4GB of memory
2.  Note amount of memory /proc/meminfo reports
3.
	

Actual Results:  /proc/meminfo reports less than total memory

Expected Results:  Total memory reported

Additional info:
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-03-27 18:48:36 UTC 
need dmesg output to see the e820 info
Comment 2 Clay Cooper 2002-03-27 19:03:19 UTC 
Created attachment 50945 [details]
dmesg output
Comment 3 Clay Cooper 2002-04-08 20:59:39 UTC 
Same behavior in 2.4.18-0.16bigmem.
Comment 4 Clay Cooper 2002-04-22 20:30:16 UTC 
Same behavior in Hampton Gold.
Comment 5 Clay Cooper 2002-04-22 20:44:07 UTC 
Created attachment 54884 [details]
/var/log/messages for 6450 w/ hampton gold installed
Comment 6 John A. Hull 2002-07-23 22:38:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65284 ***
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