On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:53:00PM -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn(a)garlic.com>
To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:53:00 -0600
Subject: Re: Fedora and 4GB of memory
Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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> From the kernel, I assume that is FC2T3.
> The machine I am working on is FC2T1, tho I dont know wny that should
> make a difference. Oh, well, at least its fixed.
well, possibly being able to view what top displays ... but there is
still why it isn't showing 4gigs. same kernel on 1gig machine ... top
will show 1gig .... but on a 4gig machine ... the various monitors and
displays all come up short (not just top).
What does /proc/meminfo tell:
$ cat /proc/meminfo
And what does /var/log/dmesg tell us.
Since 4G is a magic overflow corner case number there is a potential
for any number of arithmetic errors if all the values are not sized
for 64 bits.
The error could be in top, since top looks at /proc/meminfo we should
be able to look at the raw data that top looks at and see if anything is lost
in translation.
Also look at /var/log/dmesg for clues.
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