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Re: Running > 4GB of Memory



On 10/21/05, Mark Hansen <mark@javector.com> wrote:
> I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of
> memory.  Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run
> multiple virtual machines.
>
> Problem - I can only "see" 4GB of memory.  Here is the output from
> "free -m":
>
> mhansen@debian01:~$ free -m
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          3995       3908         86          0        145       2668
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1094       2901
> Swap:         2047          0       2047
>
>
> What do I need to do in order to make the other 2GB of memory available?

By default, 32-bit machines can only have up to 4GB of memory
allocated to a process.


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Paolo Alexis Falcone
pfalcone@gmail.com



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