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#1 2020-12-25 14:35:30

jawker
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Registered: 2019-03-30
Posts: 3

Upgraded hardware, getting "too many entries" regarding memory at boot

I did a clean install except for my home dir.

Hardware specs:
MSI Tomahawk MAX
Ryzen 3600
G.Skill Ripjaws 8x2 GB

I'm getting this from dmesg:

[    0.000000] Linux version 5.9.14-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat,
 12 Dec 2020 14:37:12 +0000
[    0.000000] Command line: initrd=\amd-ucode.img initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=UUID="121f234d-1048-4008-8339-39e45bffa505" ro
otfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap
[    0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:
[    0.000000]   Intel GenuineIntel
[    0.000000]   AMD AuthenticAMD
[    0.000000]   Hygon HygonGenuine
[    0.000000]   Centaur CentaurHauls
[    0.000000]   zhaoxin   Shanghai  
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]:  576, xstate_sizes[2]:  256
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'compacted' format.
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000009d81fff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000009d82000-0x0000000009ffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a000000-0x000000000a1fffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a200000-0x000000000a20bfff] ACPI NVS
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000a20c000-0x000000000affffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000b000000-0x000000000b01ffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000b020000-0x00000000db5ddfff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000db5de000-0x00000000db727fff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000db728000-0x00000000dbba8fff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dbba9000-0x00000000dbcbafff] ACPI NVS
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dbcbb000-0x00000000dca9bfff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000dca9c000-0x00000000deffffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000df000000-0x00000000dfffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f8000000-0x00000000fbffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fd000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000041f37ffff] usable
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9807000-0xd9808fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9809000-0xd9810fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9811000-0xd9824fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9825000-0xd982afff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd982b000-0xd982bfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd982c000-0xd982dfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd982e000-0xd982efff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd982f000-0xd9830fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9831000-0xd9833fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9834000-0xd9834fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9835000-0xd983afff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd983b000-0xd983bfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd983c000-0xd9844fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9845000-0xd9847fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9848000-0xd9848fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9849000-0xd984afff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd984b000-0xd984bfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd984c000-0xd984cfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd984d000-0xd984ffff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9850000-0xd9851fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9852000-0xd9852fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9853000-0xd9856fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9857000-0xd9859fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd985a000-0xd985cfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd985d000-0xd9876fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9877000-0xd9877fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9878000-0xd9884fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9885000-0xd9885fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9886000-0xd9886fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9887000-0xd9887fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9888000-0xd988afff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd988b000-0xd988bfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd988c000-0xd988cfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd988d000-0xd9c8efff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9c8f000-0xd9c9ffff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9ca0000-0xd9ca4fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9ca5000-0xd9ca6fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9ca7000-0xd9ca8fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9ca9000-0xd9cabfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9cac000-0xd9cacfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9cad000-0xd9cadfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9cae000-0xd9caefff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9caf000-0xd9caffff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9cb0000-0xd9cb3fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9cb4000-0xd9cb8fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xd9cb9000-0xda50afff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xda50b000-0xda50bfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xda50c000-0xda510fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xda511000-0xda513fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xda514000-0xdb5ddfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdb5de000-0xdb727fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdb728000-0xdbba8fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdbba9000-0xdbcbafff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdbcbb000-0xdc9f5fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdc9f6000-0xdca9bfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdca9c000-0xdcd9efff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdcd9f000-0xdcdbcfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdcdbd000-0xdcdebfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdcdec000-0xdcdf7fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdcdf8000-0xde5bdfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xde5be000-0xde5befff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xde5bf000-0xde5d0fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xde5d1000-0xde5d8fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xde5d9000-0xde5fdfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xde5fe000-0xde60dfff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xde60e000-0xde62efff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xde62f000-0xde649fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xde64a000-0xdeff8fff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdeff9000-0xdeffffff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0x100000000-0x41f37ffff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xdf000000-0xdfffffff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff]
[    0.000000] too many entries; ignoring [mem 0xfd000000-0xffffffff]
[    0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
[    0.000000] e820: update [mem 0xd7e69018-0xd7e77057] usable ==> usable
[    0.000000] e820: update [mem 0xd7e69018-0xd7e77057] usable ==> usable
[    0.000000] e820: update [mem 0xd7e2d018-0xd7e4ca57] usable ==> usable
[    0.000000] e820: update [mem 0xd7e2d018-0xd7e4ca57] usable ==> usable
[    0.000000] extended physical RAM map:
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000000a0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x0000000009d81fff] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000009d82000-0x0000000009ffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000a000000-0x000000000a1fffff] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000a200000-0x000000000a20bfff] ACPI NVS
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000a20c000-0x000000000affffff] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000b000000-0x000000000b01ffff] reserved
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000b020000-0x00000000d7e2d017] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000d7e2d018-0x00000000d7e4ca57] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000d7e4ca58-0x00000000d7e69017] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000d7e69018-0x00000000d7e77057] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000d7e77058-0x00000000db5ddfff] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000db5de000-0x00000000db727fff] reserved
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000db728000-0x00000000dbba8fff] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000dbba9000-0x00000000dbcbafff] ACPI NVS
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000dbcbb000-0x00000000dca9bfff] reserved
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000dca9c000-0x00000000deffffff] usable
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000df000000-0x00000000dfffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000f8000000-0x00000000fbffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000fd000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000041f37ffff] usable
[    0.000000] efi: EFI v2.70 by American Megatrends
[    0.000000] efi: ACPI 2.0=0xdbc38000 ACPI=0xdbc38000 SMBIOS=0xdc8e0000 MEMATTR=0xd91f8018 ESRT=0xd7fc5f98 RNG=0xdc8faf98 
[    0.000000] efi: seeding entropy pool
[    0.000000] SMBIOS 2.8 present.
[    0.000000] DMI: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd MS-7C02/B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (MS-7C02), BIOS 3.60 04/22/2020
[    0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration using PIT
[    0.000000] tsc: Detected 3600.088 MHz processor

I'm worried about the "too many entries" thing. Googling didn't make me wiser except that it has something to do with reserved memory from BIOS at boot.

Is there something wrong with my memory or is it just the BIOS or what?

Thanks for any help or pointers!


EDIT:
I solved it by removing "add_efi_memmap" in the loader config.

Last edited by jawker (2020-12-25 16:07:04)

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#2 2020-12-28 14:34:26

Lone_Wolf
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From: Netherlands, Europe
Registered: 2005-10-04
Posts: 15,387

Re: Upgraded hardware, getting "too many entries" regarding memory at boot

That would have been my recommendation also.

Please prepend [SOLVED] to the post title (when you edit first post you can change the title).


Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

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