Strange ext3 problem

[James Antill]

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 14:46 +0100, Joshua C. wrote:

> What I expect is that the i686 detects about 3GB of free memory (not
> the whole 4GB). according to different forums linux (and windows x86)
> x86 should be able to detect up to 3,2GB of free memory (the limit of
> 32bits). but my fedora 9 i686 sees only 2,25gb (which is away from the
> 3GB). Windowsxp sees exactly the same amount of memory.
> So either i got a crapy mashine or the forums are wrong.

 Check your motherboard firmware revision, I've seen bugs where certain
firemware will limit what the software can see.

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James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora