[CentOS] Memory Not Recognized

On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 21:48 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/16/2014 9:38 PM, Joseph Godino wrote:
> > I noticed that my CentOS 6.5 system reports that I only have about 10.9
> > GiB of RAM when I actually have 16384M. I have already tried adding
> > mem=xxM to the end of the kernel line in grub.conf. The result is the
> > same. Any suggestions?
> 
> this is a 64bit system?   where are you getting that memory report from, 
> the `free` command ?
> 
> dmidecode -t 17     #should list all the memory DIMMs in the system.
> 
> I'd also watch the bootup messages (or review them with dmesg shortly 
> after the system has started).
> 
> 
> 
> 
Yes, this is a 64-bit system. 

dmidecode -t 17 #does list all the installed DIMMs

I was getting the information from cat /proc/meminfo

Thanks.

Joe