From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261426AbVB1MXH (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:23:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261459AbVB1MXH (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:23:07 -0500 Received: from zamok.crans.org ([138.231.136.6]:11926 "EHLO zamok.crans.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261426AbVB1MXE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:23:04 -0500 From: Mathieu Segaud To: Iwan Sanders Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bigmem in Linux 2.6.8 References: <421DE9A9.4090902@wasp.net.au> <421F4629.5080309@wasp.net.au> <16930.45319.682534.351648@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1109583765.4222e795e12d4@www.proserv.ath.cx> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:23:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1109583765.4222e795e12d4@www.proserv.ath.cx> (Iwan Sanders's message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:42:45 +0100") Message-ID: <87vf8c7u1l.fsf@barad-dur.crans.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Iwan Sanders disait dernièrement que : > Hi, > > I've got a quick question about the amount of memory used by Linux. > I compiled a 2.6.8 kernel on a machine with 2GB internal memory but > it seems to use only 882MB. Did I miss an option in the config file? you did, CONFIG_HIGHMEM must be set to y it is in "Processor type and features" section -- "The 'C' language can order structure members anyway it wants." - Richard B. Johnson