How much memory do I have?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 00:15 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: 
> On 09/21/09 00:11, quoth Frederick Abrams:
> >>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:
> >> 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
> >>   
> 
> 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?
There is no doubt that 2^32 = 4gig unless one assumes that you need to
address both positive and negative addresses or displacements. The it is
2gig..
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