\n *-bank:0 On reboot, I also noted that my BIOS said I only had 3G. I started to get worried, but managed to find a setting on my Northbridge for Memory to enable “Hardware memory hole”. After that, both the BIOS and Linux were happy and seeing the full 4G. I assume the BIOS just bumps the memory in the 3G region to above 4G, which makes for a silly kernel message:<\/p>\n \n[ 24.617275] Memory: 3977852k\/5259264k<\/strong> available (2281k kernel code, 150272k reserved<\/strong>, 1182k data, 300k init)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But I don’t care. :) It works now, and my “free” output makes me happy again:<\/p>\n © 2007, Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>. A few months ago I upgraded my system to 4G of RAM. Blinded by my shiny new DIMMs, I never actually looked at the output of “free”. All I saw was that the system-monitor applet now showed lots of free memory. Only recently did I notice that I only had 3G of RAM, instead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n description: DIMM DDR Synchronous 333 MHz (3.0 ns)
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\n size: 1GB
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\n clock: 333MHz (3.0ns)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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