[KLUG Members] debian only showing half my ram?

[Bruce Smith]

> I installed debian with the beta 3 installer today. The server is a dual 
> p3 with 2gig of ram. Only half of that is showing however.
> 
> rackem:/proc# cat meminfo
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  927113216 912605184 14508032        0 57044992 748158976

I could _guess_ that maybe your kernel is compiled with the HIGHMEM
option turned off.  (I don't know anything about debian kernels)

Or possibly the kernel doesn't recognize that you have that much memory,
in which case you need to add a "mem=" parameter to the kernel in your
grub/lilo config.

 - BS