Three out of Four Isn't Bad

[Bill Davidsen]

Derek C Hopkins wrote:
> At 08:54 PM 16/04/2008, you wrote:
>> I just popped another 2GB in my development machine, 2GB to 4GB RAM, 
>> and only 3GB shows. Yes I looked at the 820 output, yes I tried PAE 
>> kernels, yes I checked the BIOS to see the the hole options were 
>> tried, other thoughts.
>>
>> FC6 running 2.6.22.14-72.fc6PAE, also 2.6.24.4 kernel.org build.
>>
>> dmesg hopefully attached if it doesn't get stripped again.
>>
>>


> Hi All     32 bit processor can only use    3G   need  64 bit processor 
> to see  more than 3 G   with 64 bit OS
> 
> 
Intel CPU using PAE has 36 address bits for physical memory. I'm talking 
about physical memory here, not address space for a single process.

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