Hi,
My question is, am I missing something here?
I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G of the upgrade.
The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.
Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks,
George...
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11-03-2011, 07:08 AM
Frank Elsner
kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:46:15 -0700 (PDT) George R Goffe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is, am I missing something here?
>
> I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G of the upgrade.
>
>
> The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.
>
> Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
You should use the PAE version of the kernel.
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11-03-2011, 07:13 AM
Frank Murphy
kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
On 03/11/11 08:08, Frank Elsner wrote:
<snipped>
>> The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.
>>
>> Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
>
> You should use the PAE version of the kernel.
>
>
> --Frank Elsner
He's on 64bit kernel-PAE is for 32bit.
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11-03-2011, 07:16 AM
Frank Cox
kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:46:15 -0700 (PDT)
George R Goffe wrote:
> I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G
> of the upgrade.
How much memory does your machine's bios screen tell you it has?
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11-03-2011, 07:39 AM
George R Goffe
kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
Frank,
Thanks for your response.
The bios reports 4096MB.
George...
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Subject: Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 00:46:15 -0700 (PDT)
George R Goffe wrote:
> I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G
> of the upgrade.
How much memory does your machine's bios screen tell you it has?
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11-03-2011, 08:04 AM
"DRSp."
kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
Am Donnerstag, den 03.11.2011, 00:46 -0700 schrieb George R Goffe:
> Hi,
>
>
> My question is, am I missing something here?
>
>
> I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see
> all 4G of the upgrade.
>
>
> The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.
>
>
> Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> George...
>
>
> uname says: 2.6.35.14-100.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 21 18:40:08 UTC
> 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
> cat /proc/meminfo says:
>
> MemTotal: 3090228 kB
> MemFree: 531148 kB
> Buffers: 66672 kB
> Cached: 945684 kB
> SwapCached: 58032 kB
> Active: 1318288 kB
> Inactive: 896312 kB
> Active(anon): 915732 kB
> Inactive(anon): 289888 kB
> Active(file): 402556 kB
> Inactive(file): 606424 kB
> Unevictable: 68 kB
> Mlocked: 68 kB
> SwapTotal: 3145724 kB
> SwapFree: 2751508 kB
> Dirty: 143324 kB
> Writeback: 15820 kB
> AnonPages: 1183460 kB
> Mapped: 76600 kB
> Shmem: 3376 kB
> Slab: 147820 kB
> SReclaimable: 90724 kB
> SUnreclaim: 57096 kB
> KernelStack: 3600 kB
> PageTables: 65096 kB
> NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> Bounce: 0 kB
> WritebackTmp: 0 kB
> CommitLimit: 4690836 kB
> Committed_AS: 2884068 kB
> VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
> VmallocUsed: 113596 kB
> VmallocChunk: 34359610520 kB
> HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB
> HugePages_Total: 0
> HugePages_Free: 0
> HugePages_Rsvd: 0
> HugePages_Surp: 0
> Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
> DirectMap4k: 2843456 kB
> DirectMap2M: 301056 kB
>
>
>
>
>
> "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't
> so." Wil Rogers... Wil would say, "STIFF THE FED"!!!
shared grafic-card - perhaps? didn't google the specs of your
lenovo-t60...
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11-03-2011, 09:40 AM
Roberto Ragusa
kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
On 11/03/2011 08:46 AM, George R Goffe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is, am I missing something here?
>
> I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G of the upgrade.
>
> The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.
>
> Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
x86_64, so something is happening at the hardware level (shared VGA?)
or BIOS level (wrong config, bugs).
What do you get with this command?
grep 'BIOS-e820' /var/log/dmesg
it will show how the memory areas have been described by the BIOS.
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11-03-2011, 12:12 PM
"Michael D. Setzer II"
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On 3 Nov 2011 at 11:40, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:40:44 +0100
From: Roberto Ragusa <mail@robertoragusa.it>
To: George R Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>,
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Subject: Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
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> On 11/03/2011 08:46 AM, George R Goffe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My question is, am I missing something here?
> >
> > I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to
> > see all 4G of the upgrade.
> >
> > The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.
> >
> > Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
> x86_64, so something is happening at the hardware level (shared VGA?)
> or BIOS level (wrong config, bugs).
>
> What do you get with this command?
>
> grep 'BIOS-e820' /var/log/dmesg
>
> it will show how the memory areas have been described by the BIOS.
>
Might be interesting to install memtest86+ and then run
memtest-setup to add it as an option to grub.
Then restart the system, and select the memtest option.
Sometimes I've had to change the grub.conf lines for memtest,
but don't recall what needed to be changed, but this is what I have
in mine at the moment.
title Memtest86+ (4.20)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /memtest86+-4.20
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11-03-2011, 12:38 PM
Lamar Owen
kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
On Nov 3, 2011, at 3:46 AM, George R Goffe wrote:
I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to
see all 4G of the upgrade.
The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.
Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
It is a hardware limitation in the 945M chipset; the chipset
physically only has 32 address lines, and the PCI/PCI-e memory map has
to go somewhere. That 'somewhere' is typically the top 1GB of address
space, leaving 3GB (give or take) available for RAM. If you don't
have that 33rd address line, you can't go above the 32-bit barrier PAE
or 64 bit regardless.
Same thing is true in my Dell Precision M65, although the Dell BIOS
squeezes a little more out of it, 3.5GB or so is what I get with 4GB
of RAM installed, and the 64-bit kernel, Fedora 14.
The 965 chipset fixes this by adding physical address lines to the
chipset and adding remapping support in hardware.
In the Dell case, the Precision M65 is virtually the same machine as a
Latitude D820; both have the 945; the Latitude D830 and equivalent
Precision model have the 965, and can address all 4GB of RAM and can
map the RAM that is displaced by the PCI/PCI-e address space above the
4GB (32-bit) line. (If your BIOS has 'PCI Memory Hole Remapping'
support you can try that; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_hole
for more information. But this won't help go above the 32-bit
addressing barrier if the chipset physically only has 32-bits of
addressing capacity, regardless of processor installed.
Again, neither PAE nor 64-bit OS will help since the 945 chipset
physically does not have a 33rd (and above) address line, so the PCI/
PCI-e memory map has to go somewhere in the 4GB (32-bit) address
space, taking away from the 4GB of installed RAM.
Please also see http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm
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11-03-2011, 03:13 PM
George R Goffe
kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
Roberto,
I grasp the concept of reserved memory but do not understand what it's used for or what the ramifications are.
Memory reserved from 4g for the driver?
Hmmm. It looks like that last value at the bottom goes up to 4g. Is this the culprit?
I'm not doing anything special with graphics... that I know of.
Here's what I get from your command.
Regards,
George...
grep 'BIOS-e820' /var/log/dmesg
[***
0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 00000000000d4000 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bfed0000 (usable)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000bfed0000 - 00000000bfedf000 (ACPI data)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000bfedf000 - 00000000bff00000 (ACPI NVS)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000bff00000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[***
0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[*** 0.000000]* BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
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From: Roberto Ragusa <mail@robertoragusa.it>
To: George R Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>; Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
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Subject: Re: kernel/system can't see all 4G memory
On 11/03/2011 08:46 AM, George R Goffe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My question is, am I missing something here?
>
> I upgraded my lenovo 60t to 4G memory and don't seem to be able to see all 4G of the upgrade.
>
> The hardware spec for this machine says it supports 4G memory.
>
> Any hints/clues/tips would be GREATLY appreciated.
x86_64, so something is happening at the hardware level (shared VGA?)
or BIOS level (wrong config, bugs).
What do you get with this command?
* grep 'BIOS-e820' /var/log/dmesg
it will show how the memory areas have been described by the BIOS.
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