Memory 64bit see 8gigs but can only use 4gigs

Chris Miller fedora at gammanetworking.com
Fri Sep 30 22:48:16 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:23, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Chris Miller wrote:
>  >  kernel: Memory: 3992156k/8388608k available (2242k kernel code, 0k
>  > reserved, 1322k data, 224k init)
>  > 
>  > 
>  >              total       used       free     shared    buffers    
>  > cached
>  > Mem:       3993352    2541436    1451916          0     526208    
>  > 481032
>  > -/+ buffers/cache:    1534196    2459156
>  > Swap:            0          0          0
>  > 
>  >  2.6.13-1.1526_FC4smp #1 SMP Wed Sep 28 19:28:24 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64
>  > x86_64 GNU/Linux
>  > 
>  > Any idea why I can see all 8gigs but can only use 4gigs?
> 
> Try booting with numa=noacpi
> If this works, it's a buggy bios.
> 
> 		Dave

That is the fix thank you.
Was starting to think it was me =)




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