ram question

[Gregory Nowak]

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I don't usually reply to my own posts, but I thought it would also be
useful to provide the output from the sensors program part of the
lm_sensors package.

eeprom-i2c-0-50
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 5000
Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
Memory type:            SDRAM DIMM SPD
SDRAM Size (MB):        256

eeprom-i2c-0-51
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 5000
Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
Memory type:            SDRAM DIMM SPD
SDRAM Size (MB):        128

eeprom-i2c-0-52
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 5000
Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
Memory type:            SDRAM DIMM SPD
SDRAM Size (MB):        128
 
Greg


On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:54:51PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I just installed a 256M ram chip in my server. This gives me 256M of
> ram in bank1, 128M in bank2, and 128M ram in bank 3, which should
> compute to a total of 512M of ram.
> 
> However, in my dmesg output, I get:
> 
> 383MB LOWMEM available.
> 
> The board can support a total of 768M of ram, so the system should be
> seeing the full 512M of ram, but it doesn't look like this is the
> case. This is a 100MHz FSB board. The chips are all sdram, and are
> pc133, pc100, and pc100 respectively. 
> 
> Does anybody see what I'm missing? Should I maybe enable the high
> memory option in the kernel? The kernel is 2.4.25. Please let me know
> if I should provide more info. Thanks in advance as always.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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