linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: AMD Zacate E350 shows only 2.6GB memory when 8GB installed

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Message-ID: <8580d88821b047c208fa769799eb9626.squirrel@mail.techspecs.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:30:19 -0700
From:	chrish@...hspecs.com
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: AMD Zacate E350 shows only 2.6GB memory when 8GB
 installed

Thank you to those who gave suggestions about the issue I saw. Updating
the kernel to 2.6.39, for me, fixed the problem.

Best,
  Chris


> Hi,
>
>    I tried this on Fedora 14 and OpenSuse 11.4 and both exhibit the same
> behavior. 8GB is installed but only 2698476 shows available for use
> using "top" or "free". dmidecode shows 2 4GB DIMMs and the BIOS reports
> 8GB of memory. Memtest reports and tests 8GB of memory. I Googled the
> issue and it seems there are others that also report the same. What to
> do? Thank you.
>
> Best,
>   Chris
>
>


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