Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:41:57 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> To: Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real and available memory? Message-ID: <200608090841.k798fvVW085838@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net> of "Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:28:16 %2B0300." <44D99CA0.1030703@bulinfo.net>
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Krassimir Slavchev wrote: > Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Krassimir Slavchev wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have Vortex86-6082 with 128Mb AMI bios. > >> > >> Why the kernel reports only 80 MB available memory? > >> Is this related to BIOS or kernel settings? > >> > >> dmesg output: > >> > >> Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. > >> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > >> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > >> FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 26 10:09:06 EEST 2006 > >> root@krassi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TINYBSD > >> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > >> CPU: Pentium (166.61-MHz 586-class CPU) > >> Origin = "SiS SiS SiS " Id = 0x505 > >> real memory = 125829120 (120 MB) > >> avail memory = 84332544 (80 MB) > >> kbd1 at kbdmux0 > >> ... > >> > > > > > > Does the mboard BIOS on monitor at boot recognise all 128 M ? > > > > I've seen boards that only recognised 1/4 of the SIM size. > > 80 seems a bit of an odd (non hex) number though. > > > > > Yes, at boot the board recognizes 128Mb. The RAM is embedded on the board. > The kernel reports real 120 Mb because maybe 8 Mb is used by video card. > I don't know why exact 80Mb is reported but 80 = 64+16. Have you tried unplugging every board (inc. ethernet scsi raid etc) & plugging in a different (modest, old as possible. less demanding) graphic card ? Maybe that'd give a clue, maybe your graphics card is taking more than 8M ? -- Julian Stacey. Unix & C Consultant, Munich / Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.
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