[ILUG] physical RAM != detected RAM (Linux 2.6.2)

[Liam Bedford]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:06:42PM +0200, Dale Gallagher wrote:
> Any ideas, suggestions?
> 
> HP DL-380 box with 3.06GHz/1MB Proc
> Linux 2.6.2
> 1024MB DDR SDRAM
> 
> 'free' reports: 904348
> 
> 'dmesg' reports:
> 
> <snip>
> Warning only 896MB will be used.
> Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
> 896MB LOWMEM available.
> </snip>
> 
Err, do what it says :)

recompile the kernel with memory support of 4G, or find a
HIGHMEM enabled kernel package.

L.
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