How much memory do I have?
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 21 13:38:05 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 16:23 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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.
>
The PAE kernel is the default kernel in a F11 installation.
>
> 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?
> >
> >
>
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