Can't fine 10 g of memory

Dr. David Alan Gilbert dell at treblig.org
Fri Dec 14 15:28:17 CST 2007


* Alan Bunch (Alan.Bunch at udfc.com) wrote:
> This is a don0 on Centos 5.
> 
> Top report 6 gig, /proc/meminfo report 6 gig dmidecode says 4 sticks of 
> 4 gig.
> 
> Any idea why I can't see of my memory ?

Hmm 6 isn't a very round number is it.  One thing that is sometimes
interesting for missing RAM is the BIOS-e820 messages you get right
at the very start of boot - is it all showing up as 'useable' in
that (from the top of a dmesg)

Dave
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