Re: System Only Recognizing 256 MB Ram

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Yes indeed.  RHEL 5.4.  5.3 on this same system did not have the issue.  Brand new install...

--ron
On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:

> On 01/07/2010 03:04 PM, Ronald Mccarty wrote:
>> Hey,
>> 
>> Hope someone can give me some help here...
>> 
>> I have a Dell 1850 with 4 X 1 GB memory sticks that the linux kernel is only recognizing 256 MB...well actually 249 it's reporting:
>> 
>> [root@asvhyp1 proc]# free -m
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:           249         98        150          0          8         64
>> -/+ buffers/cache:         24        224
>> Swap:         2047          0       2047
>> 
>> 
>> I originally thought it was a Xen / Kernel issue; however, booting the system to a non zen kernel reports the same issue.  (dmesg is reporting 256 MB low mem, and no high)
>> 
>> It seems like I saw something years ago when getting 32-bit systems to see 4 GB was more magic than science, but I'm stumped.
>> 
>> The Dell BIOS is showing the 4 GB.
>> 
>> If you don't have any insight, maybe some tips on helpful commands would be useful.
> 
> We need to know what RHEL version you're running.
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