How much memory do I have?

[Clint Dilks]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On 09/21/09 00:23, quoth Clint Dilks:
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>> Hi
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>> 4G is the Limit but your Bios can cause issues like you are seeing.  Try
>> going into your Bios options and seeing if there are relevant options
>> there.  On some Desktop Systems in order to access as much of the 4G as
>> possible you need to be running a PAE kernel.
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> Ok, How do I tell if my cpu supports PAE? Was that visible in the output I
> sent or is there something I can run to see it?
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I haven't looked at your previous message but most modern CPU's have PAE 
support.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
>> Steven W. Orr wrote:
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>>> On 09/21/09 00:11, quoth Frederick Abrams:
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>>>> >From what i remember on a 32Bit the maximum ammount of memory your pc
>>>> will see/make use of is 3Gb to make use of anything more than 3GB you
>>>> need to use a 64Bit OS.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Fred
>>>>
>>>> On 09/21/2009 08:01 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
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>>>>> I just upgraded my MB from 1 to 4Gig of ram.  The relevant part of
>>>>> lshw is
>>>>> below. So I saw that and then I though I was ok. Then I went and did
>>>>> a cat of
>>>>> /proc/meminfo
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>>> Can someone confirm this? Last I heard, 32Bits meant 4Gig. The HW sees
>>> it.
>>> lshw sees it. The kernel should not be limited by it. No?
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