VMS doesn't recognize all physical memory?

From: carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co <(carlos_murillo_at_epm.net.co)>
Date: Fri Jun 7 12:41:24 2002

Hello everyone;


I have noticed that OpenVMS 7.2 doesn't seem to recognize all
of the physical memory in my vaxstation 4000/60; I am sure
that I have 32 MB (8MB mainboard + 6 x 4MB modules) and
in fact it is recognized by the prom:

KR46-A V1.1-31E-V4.0
08-00-2B-2A-F8-AB
32MB
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

OK

 85 RESTART SYS
>>>

>>> show config

KR46-A V1.1-31E-V4.0
08-00-2B-2A-F8-AB
32MB

DEVNBR DEVNAM INFO
------ -------- -------------------------------
     1 NVR OK
     2 LCG OK
                         HR - 8PLN FB - V1.1
     3 DZ OK
     4 CACHE OK
     5 MEM OK
                        32MB = SY=8MB, S0/1=8MB, S2/3=8MB, S4/5=8MB
     6 FPU OK
     7 IT OK
     8 SYS OK
     9 NI OK
    10 SCSI OK
                        0-ST31200 5-TZ30 6-INITR 7-CD-ROM
    11 AUD OK

>>>

Similarly, the TEST 100 command tests all of the hardware and
there aren't any errors. So, as far as the diagnostics in the
Prom are concerned, the system has 32MB of memory and it tests OK.

But, this is what I get under OpenVMS:

$ show memory
              System Memory Resources on 6-JUN-2000 16:25:53.84

Physical Memory Usage (pages): Total Free In Use Modified
  Main Memory (16.00Mb) 32768 8459 22775
1534

Virtual I/O Cache Usage (pages): Total Free In Use Maximum
  Cache Memory 11 0 11 51649

Slot Usage (slots): Total Free Resident Swapped
  Process Entry Slots 48 25 21
   2
  Balance Set Slots 43 23 19
   1

Dynamic Memory Usage (bytes): Total Free In Use Largest
  Nonpaged Dynamic Memory 1359360 103552 1255808 12480
  Paged Dynamic Memory 717824 435488 282336 434448

Paging File Usage (pages): Free Reservable Total
  DISK$VAX4000SYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS
                                                6240 6240
7200
  DISK$VAX4000SYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS
                                               55557 15536 65536

Of the physical pages in use, 10827 pages are permanently allocated to
OpenVMS.



So, what is happening here? Does anybody have some suggestions
as to why OpenVMS doesn't see/want to use the remaining 16MB?

Best regards,,

Carlos.



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