IBM Power PC recognise only 1 GB of total RAM
Issue
IBM Power PC model 8202-E4C with RHEL 6.3 (kernel 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.ppc64) recognise only 1 GB of the 8 GB RAM
[root@host_name]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1006784 kB
MemFree: 165632 kB
Buffers: 116224 kB
Cached: 442112 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
VmallocTotal: 8589934592 kB
VmallocUsed: 16448 kB
VmallocChunk: 8589859904 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
HugePages_Surp: 0
Hugepagesize: 16384 kB
[root@host_name]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 983 820 162 0 113 431
-/+ buffers/cache: 275 707
Swap: 1023 0 1023
Environment
RHEL 6
IBM Power 720 Express Server
platform - pSeries (Full Power7 Mode)
model - IBM,8202-E4C
machine - CHRP IBM,8202-E4C
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