[KLUG Members] Re: debian only showing half my ram?

members@kalamazoolinux.org members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:25:57 -0400


On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:41:22PM -0400, Richard Harding was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> 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.

All versions of Debian have SMP-enabled kernels available. I would
imagine that they have HIGHMEM enabled as well. (If not, you may have to
boot an SMP kernel with the mem= param.)

It is dead easy to check. grep(1) the config-(version) file in /boot, as
with all Debian kernels.

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