[ltp] Re: The mystery of missing RAM

David A. Desrosiers linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:57:41 -0400


On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 18:51 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Lossage on the 32-bit platform.  Try the "server", "big iron" or a 64
> bit kernel and you should be happier.

None of these helped. I'm booted to 2.6.24-12-server right now as I type
this, and I see: 

$ uname -a
Linux galaeus 2.6.24-12-server #1 SMP Wed Mar 12 23:34:17 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux

$ grep PAE /boot/config-2.6.24-12-server 
CONFIG_X86_PAE=y

         total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      3041        975       2065          0          0        672
-/+ buffers/cache:    301       2739
Swap:     5119          0       5119

$ cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      3114612 kB
MemFree:       2115472 kB
Buffers:           856 kB
Cached:         689148 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         381096 kB
Inactive:       559436 kB
HighTotal:     2226880 kB
HighFree:      1294428 kB
LowTotal:       887732 kB
LowFree:        821044 kB
SwapTotal:     5242872 kB
SwapFree:      5242872 kB
Dirty:               4 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:      250528 kB
Mapped:          64728 kB
Slab:            27600 kB
SReclaimable:    13796 kB
SUnreclaim:      13804 kB
PageTables:       5064 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   6800176 kB
Committed_AS:   663912 kB
VmallocTotal:   118776 kB
VmallocUsed:     49184 kB
VmallocChunk:    61940 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
HugePages_Surp:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB


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