I originally thought it was a Xen / Kernel issue; however, booting the system to a non zen kernel reports the same issue. (dmesg is reporting 256 MB low mem, and no high)
It seems like I saw something years ago when getting 32-bit systems to see 4 GB was more magic than science, but I'm stumped.
The Dell BIOS is showing the 4 GB.
If you don't have any insight, maybe some tips on helpful commands would be useful.
Thanks,
--ron
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01-07-2010, 11:43 PM
Rick Stevens
System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, Ronald Mccarty wrote:
Hey,
Hope someone can give me some help here...
I have a Dell 1850 with 4 X 1 GB memory sticks that the linux kernel is only recognizing 256 MB...well actually 249 it's reporting:
I originally thought it was a Xen / Kernel issue; however, booting the system to a non zen kernel reports the same issue. (dmesg is reporting 256 MB low mem, and no high)
It seems like I saw something years ago when getting 32-bit systems to see 4 GB was more magic than science, but I'm stumped.
The Dell BIOS is showing the 4 GB.
If you don't have any insight, maybe some tips on helpful commands would be useful.
We need to know what RHEL version you're running.
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01-08-2010, 12:46 AM
Ronald Mccarty
System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
Yes indeed. RHEL 5.4. 5.3 on this same system did not have the issue. Brand new install...
--ron
On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, Ronald Mccarty wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Hope someone can give me some help here...
>>
>> I have a Dell 1850 with 4 X 1 GB memory sticks that the linux kernel is only recognizing 256 MB...well actually 249 it's reporting:
>>
>> [root@asvhyp1 proc]# free -m
>> total used free shared buffers cached
>> Mem: 249 98 150 0 8 64
>> -/+ buffers/cache: 24 224
>> Swap: 2047 0 2047
>>
>>
>> I originally thought it was a Xen / Kernel issue; however, booting the system to a non zen kernel reports the same issue. (dmesg is reporting 256 MB low mem, and no high)
>>
>> It seems like I saw something years ago when getting 32-bit systems to see 4 GB was more magic than science, but I'm stumped.
>>
>> The Dell BIOS is showing the 4 GB.
>>
>> If you don't have any insight, maybe some tips on helpful commands would be useful.
>
> We need to know what RHEL version you're running.
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01-08-2010, 12:49 AM
"Bret"
System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
The bios on Dell 1850 has a OS install setting which
can cause this.
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> Subject: Re: System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
>
> On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, Ronald Mccarty wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Hope someone can give me some help here...
> >
> > I have a Dell 1850 with 4 X 1 GB memory sticks that the
> linux kernel is only recognizing 256 MB...well actually 249
> it's reporting:
> >
> > [root@asvhyp1 proc]# free -m
> > total used free shared
> buffers cached
> > Mem: 249 98 150 0
> 8 64
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 24 224
> > Swap: 2047 0 2047
> >
> >
> > I originally thought it was a Xen / Kernel issue; however,
> booting the
> > system to a non zen kernel reports the same issue. (dmesg is
> > reporting 256 MB low mem, and no high)
> >
> > It seems like I saw something years ago when getting 32-bit
> systems to see 4 GB was more magic than science, but I'm stumped.
> >
> > The Dell BIOS is showing the 4 GB.
> >
> > If you don't have any insight, maybe some tips on helpful
> commands would be useful.
>
> We need to know what RHEL version you're running.
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01-08-2010, 04:51 AM
Ronald Mccarty
System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
Bret,
I appreciate it! I believe that is indeed the issue...the batter was acting up on the system, and it lost some bios settings for the raid controller as well...
--ron
On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Bret wrote:
> The bios on Dell 1850 has a OS install setting which
> can cause this.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Rick Stevens
>> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:43 PM
>> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>> Subject: Re: System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
>>
>> On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, Ronald Mccarty wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Hope someone can give me some help here...
>>>
>>> I have a Dell 1850 with 4 X 1 GB memory sticks that the
>> linux kernel is only recognizing 256 MB...well actually 249
>> it's reporting:
>>>
>>> [root@asvhyp1 proc]# free -m
>>> total used free shared
>> buffers cached
>>> Mem: 249 98 150 0
>> 8 64
>>> -/+ buffers/cache: 24 224
>>> Swap: 2047 0 2047
>>>
>>>
>>> I originally thought it was a Xen / Kernel issue; however,
>> booting the
>>> system to a non zen kernel reports the same issue. (dmesg is
>>> reporting 256 MB low mem, and no high)
>>>
>>> It seems like I saw something years ago when getting 32-bit
>> systems to see 4 GB was more magic than science, but I'm stumped.
>>>
>>> The Dell BIOS is showing the 4 GB.
>>>
>>> If you don't have any insight, maybe some tips on helpful
>> commands would be useful.
>>
>> We need to know what RHEL version you're running.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@nerd.com -
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Rick Stevens
System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram
On 01/07/2010 05:49 PM, Bret wrote:
The bios on Dell 1850 has a OS install setting which
can cause this.
That was my next idea. Nice catch, Bret.
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