Gentoo is reporting an incorrect amount of system RAM. Redhat 8 (same hardware) and Win2K Server both report 1.2GB of ram. The system BIOS currently reports 1280MB of RAM. Gentoo reports 900mb. It is a Dell Poweredge 500SC, 1.2gb of ECC SDRAM, 1.2ghz Celeron, 3 IDE hard drives. Here is both TOP and DMESG output from my system. Please let me know what else you might need. I will be happy to provide SSH access to my box, since it isn't production yet. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.reboot - same amound of RAM reported every time 2. 3. 07:55:52 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.13, 0.05 52 processes: 50 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 8.8% user, 13.8% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% iowait, 77.3% idle Mem: 904044k av, 51788k used, 852256k free, 0k shrd, 2944k buff 13228k active, 26892k inactive Swap: 1309288k av, 0k used, 1309288k free 25684k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 6502 root 17 0 996 996 780 R 0.9 0.1 0:00 top 1 root 9 0 500 500 440 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 18 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated 12 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 13 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kjournald 46 root 9 0 892 892 600 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 devfsd 5527 root 9 0 576 576 472 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 syslogd 5529 root 9 0 536 536 388 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 klogd 5532 named 9 0 2416 2416 1836 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 named 5578 root 9 0 8564 8564 8448 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 apache 5652 root 9 0 568 568 556 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 authdaemond.pla 5677 root 8 0 524 524 456 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 couriertcpd 5687 root 9 0 268 268 220 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 courierlogger 5736 root 8 0 524 524 456 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 couriertcpd 5743 root 9 0 268 268 220 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 courierlogger 5811 root 9 0 1544 1544 1168 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 cupsd 6259 root 9 0 1180 1180 928 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 master 6287 postfix 9 0 1112 1112 888 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 pickup 6288 postfix 9 0 1144 1144 908 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 qmgr 6305 root 9 0 1832 1828 1260 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 smbd 6307 root 9 0 1656 1656 1508 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nmbd 6394 root 9 0 1292 1292 1168 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 sshd chriswillis root # dmesg Linux version 2.4.20 (root@cdimage) (gcc version 3.2.2) #1 SMP Mon May 19 13:33:18 PDT 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000004fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000004fff0000 - 000000004ffffc00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000004ffffc00 - 0000000050000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000fe710 hm, page 000fe000 reserved twice. hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f0000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 229376 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 225280 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: DELL Product ID: PE 010B APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 I/O APIC #1 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC01000. Processors: 1 Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb3 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1196.835 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2385.51 BogoMIPS Memory: 903904k/917504k available (2054k kernel code, 13216k reserved, 693k data, 140k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU0: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1200MHz stepping 04 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.44 usecs. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Error: only one processor found. ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs Setting 1 in the phys_id_present_map ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 1 ... ok. Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 1-0, 1-2, 1-10, 1-11, 1-13, 2-5, 2-6, 2-9 not connected. ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=-1 pin2=0 ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... ..... (found pin 0) ...works. number of MP IRQ sources: 37. number of IO-APIC #1 registers: 16. number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 16. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #1...... .... register #00: 01000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 01 .... register #01: 000F0011 ....... : max redirection entries: 000F ....... : PRQ implemented: 0 ....... : IO APIC version: 0011 .... register #02: 00000000 ....... : arbitration: 00 .... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: 00 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39 02 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 05 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 51 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69 09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71 0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79 0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89 IO APIC #2...... .... register #00: 02000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 02 .... register #01: 000F0011 ....... : max redirection entries: 000F ....... : PRQ implemented: 0 ....... : IO APIC version: 0011 .... register #02: 0C000000 ....... : arbitration: 0C .... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: 00 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 91 01 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 99 02 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1 03 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9 04 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1 05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 06 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 07 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9 08 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1 09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0a 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9 0b 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1 0c 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9 0d 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E1 0e 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E9 0f 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 32 IRQ to pin mappings: IRQ0 -> 0:0 IRQ1 -> 0:1 IRQ3 -> 0:3 IRQ4 -> 0:4 IRQ5 -> 0:5 IRQ6 -> 0:6 IRQ7 -> 0:7 IRQ8 -> 0:8 IRQ9 -> 0:9 IRQ12 -> 0:12 IRQ14 -> 0:14 IRQ15 -> 0:15 IRQ16 -> 1:0 IRQ17 -> 1:1 IRQ18 -> 1:2 IRQ19 -> 1:3 IRQ20 -> 1:4 IRQ23 -> 1:7 IRQ24 -> 1:8 IRQ26 -> 1:10 IRQ27 -> 1:11 IRQ28 -> 1:12 IRQ29 -> 1:13 IRQ30 -> 1:14 IRQ31 -> 1:15 .................................... done. Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1196.8582 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 99.7380 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 997380, slice: 498690 CPU0<T0:997376,T1:498672,D:14,S:498690,C:997380> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc82e, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 01 [IRQ] PCI: Using IRQ router ServerWorks [1166/0201] at 00:0f.0 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I2,P0) -> 20 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I10,P0) -> 30 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de). pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ServerWorks CSB5: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 79 ServerWorks CSB5: detected chipset, but driver not compiled in! ServerWorks CSB5: chipset revision 146 ServerWorks CSB5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x08b0-0x08b7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0x08b8-0x08bf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hdb: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored hda: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: WDC WD400BB-18DEA0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdb: setmax LBA 78125040, native 78125000 hdb: 78125000 sectors (40000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=77504/16/63 hda: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL] [4863/255/63] p1 p2 p3 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xec80. Vers LK1.1.16 eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others eth1: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:C0:9F:12:0A:E2, IRQ 20. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 07195d-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). Receiver lock-up workaround activated. Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M agpgart: no supported devices found. [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1 [drm:drm_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 megaraid: v1.18 (Release Date: Thu Oct 11 15:02:53 EDT 2001) megaraid: no BIOS enabled. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] usb.c: registered new driver hub uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. ds: no socket drivers loaded! kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed Adding Swap: 1309288k swap-space (priority -1) EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,67), internal journal chriswillis root # Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1200MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi g /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode gif gpm imlib jpeg kde gnome libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline java X tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd gtk qt motif opengl" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
i think this has nothing to do with the gentoo distribution. i think it is your kernel configuration wich is not okay. could you post what kernel you are using and maybe the .config file? cheers SteveB
I think Steve B is correct; this is a config issue and not a bug. The user needs to compile with the CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G flag set. See http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/jl3/features-2.3-2.html for more information.
well, seems like a config issue and the end-user has not repsonded. closing.
