kernel/system can't see all 4G memory

George R Goffe grgoffe at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 3 07:46:15 UTC 2011


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



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