Re: Memory Question
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Tyler Smith wrote:
> On 2007-02-13, Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl> wrote:
>> Here's my question. Why do the two different versions report different
>> a different amount of memory? The 32 bit version says I have a total of
>> 886MB, where the 64-bit version says there is 1024MB.
>>
>
> I came across this recently when I upgraded my Ram from 0.5 to 1.5
> gigs. In order to use 1GB or more RAM you have to have a kernel with
> highmem support enabled. Perhaps your 32 bit installation doesn't have
> this, while the 64-bit does. It's easily fixed, you need to figure out
> which kernel image supports highmem on your architecture and install
> that. For me, it meant switching from the 2.6.18-3-386 to the
> 2.6.18-3-686 kernel.
>
Thanks, I upgraded to the 686 kernel and now it shows everything. I of
course had to change my nvidia drivers as well. I lost X for a little
while, but I've been there before and had it fixed in a few minutes.
One thing I did notice, Xorg was using 40% of the CPU with the "nv"
driver. When I switched to "nvidia" (nvidia-glx) it dropped to 2%.
I don't like using proprietary stuff, but I can't live with only 60% of
my cpu.
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