Re: Running > 4GB of Memory
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:57 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
> 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.
3GB in Linux, but that's not his question.
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