Memory Issues

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 21/09/05, Smith, Troy (NIH/NCI) <trsmith at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> I have installed Ubuntu 5.04 on a Latitude D600, dual booting with a
> non-Linux OS.  The laptop has 2GB of physical memory, which is recognized by
> the BIOS and the other OS.  However, the output of $cat /proc/meminfo shows
> the MemTotal=906656kb, and the output of free -m shows 885mb.  I installed
> the default build with the 386 kernel.

You need to update to the 686 kernel to take advantage of memory above
1 GB. sudo apt-get install linux-image-686, I believe. (I'm not in
front of my Ubuntu now, so check in Synaptic and make sure i have the
package name correct.) Then reboot.

> I don't believe a hugemem kernel is
> needed here, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong (I'm relatively new to
> Linux).  Any guidance (I am actively searching Ubuntu wiki) and assistance
> anyone is able to provide on how to get all of the memory recognized is
> greatly appreciated.
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> Thanks
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> Troy
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