From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; Q312461) Description of problem: When running RHAS 2.1AS on a Compaq Prolinet ML530 with Dual 800mhz processors and two Gigs of pc133 sdram. *memory is oem* They system only reports using 1gig. I use the free command and /proc/meminfo file to determine. This problem occurs on all of my Compaq's (4) I installed using same identical procedures and a Dell PE-2450 and these systems report all 2gigs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install rhas 2.use same install method on both compaq ml530 and dell pe-2450 3. Actual Results: compaq reports only 1 gig of ram and swap 2gig dell pe-2450 reports 2gig of ram and swap 2gig Expected Results: compaq ml530 should report 2gigs of memory Additional info: [root@tnwg01a101 root]# free (comaq ml 530) total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1027800 862584 165216 448 256232 238436 -/+ buffers/cache: 367916 659884 Swap: 2044072 158584 1885488 [root@tdev023ilab root]# free (Dell PE-2450) total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2058916 1914564 144352 1972 153220 1380624 -/+ buffers/cache: 380720 1678196 Swap: 2040244 0 2040244
What does /proc/meminfo contain?
Per Alex Request on 1.6.03 Mem: 1052467200 1009963008 42504192 57344 145096704 508567552 Swap: 2093129728 22728704 2070401024 MemTotal: 1027800 kB MemFree: 41508 kB MemShared: 56 kB Buffers: 141696 kB Cached: 492772 kB SwapCached: 3876 kB Active: 50252 kB Inact_dirty: 566316 kB Inact_clean: 21832 kB Inact_target: 262140 kB HighTotal: 131056 kB HighFree: 2036 kB LowTotal: 896744 kB LowFree: 39472 kB SwapTotal: 2044072 kB SwapFree: 2021876 kB BigPagesFree: 0 kB
This seem to be a kernel issue. Its not recognizing the second gig of memory. Reassigning.
how much does the bios actually recognize ? can you attach dmesg output so that we can see the e820 table ?
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