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Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue May 11 14:17:38 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 06:33 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: 
> Just a question here... are you running a 32-bit version of Fedora or a 64-
> bit version? 32-bit versions will only show about 3 gigs of memory, no 
> matter how much if you have 20 Gigs, you'll only see 3.

I would expect 32 bit machinews to be able to handle 4G of memory. 
2^32=4G

And the putput of free tells me he has roughly 4G of memmory reported.
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