8G memory showing up as 3365148 KB

Hiren Joshi josh at moonfruit.com
Tue Feb 19 08:09:37 CST 2008


Clearly I'm having a 'blond' moment, I didn't install the PAE kernel,
thanks all for the advice =) 

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Sent: 19 February 2008 13:10
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Subject: Re: 8G memory showing up as 3365148 KB

Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit OS stack? If 32-bit, you will need the
hugemem/PAE kernel.

Gordan

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Hiren Joshi wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have a PE 2950 (with 8G memory) running centos 5.1. cat 
> /proc/meminfo
> shows:
> MemTotal:      3365148 kB
> MemFree:       3154776 kB
> Buffers:         18108 kB
> Cached:         139932 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:          70960 kB
> Inactive:       118064 kB
> HighTotal:     2485568 kB
> HighFree:      2308520 kB
> LowTotal:       879580 kB
> LowFree:        846256 kB
> SwapTotal:     4194296 kB
> SwapFree:      4194296 kB
> Dirty:               0 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> AnonPages:       30972 kB
> Mapped:          10724 kB
> Slab:            10632 kB
> PageTables:       1000 kB
> NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
> Bounce:              0 kB
> CommitLimit:   5876868 kB
> Committed_AS:    74192 kB
> VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
> VmallocUsed:      4232 kB
> VmallocChunk:   110108 kB
> HugePages_Total:     0
> HugePages_Free:      0
> HugePages_Rsvd:      0
> Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
>
>
> I'm wondering where all the free memory goes. I checked the bois 
> settings with the Dell technition (as dset shows 8G) and that's all 
> fine. Any ideas?
>

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