More RAM not recognized -

[Marcos Luis Ortiz Valmaseda]

I recommend to you that you install the 64 bits version to can able to use
all available RAM memory in your system.
Regards

2011/7/29 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>

>
>    This Dell DM4700 came with 2-256 mb strips, some time ago I added
>    2-1 gb strips for a total of 2.5 gb.
>
>    This morning I replaced the 256 mb strips with 2-2 gb for a total of
>    6. The bios setup screen shows 6 gb but apparently Linux is only
>    using half that amount, not much of an improvement!:
>
>        [bobg at box6 ~]$ free -m
>                      total       used       free     shared
>        buffers     cached
>        Mem:          3022        719       2303          0
>        31        265
>        -/+ buffers/cache:        422       2600
>        Swap:         4575          0       4575
>
>    This is an up to date F-15 32 bit configured as I want it.
>
>    [bobg at box6 ~]$ uname -a
>    Linux box6 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jul 6 14:46:26 UTC 2011
>    i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>    Must I install the 64 bit version to take advantage of the memory?
>    If so perhaps I could upgrade the present install to 64 and keep my
>    configuration or do I have to bite the bullet and do a new install.
>
>    Bob
>
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