On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote:
>
> >
> > Perhaps this is a faq...
> > I have a dual-800 (mb asus, no AGP) with 1GB ram,
> > but according to /proc/meminfo tells I only have
> > 900000KB. I tried "mem=1024" boot parameter without
> > success. How can I get my 128MB back ?
> >
>
> when you compile your 2.4.x kernel make sure you set the "4G of RAM"
> option, i.e. CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G. If you chose "up to 1G" then it means "up
> to 986M" (or something like that) -- the number in Help is just rounded up
~~~
not 986M but (unsigned long)(-PAGE_OFFSET-VMALLOC_RESERVE)>>20 MB which is
around 876M or so.
Regards,
Tigran
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