Re: 4 gigs of ram shows only 3 in meminfo
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On 02/29/08 16:01, Owen Townend wrote:
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> On 3/1/08, *Ron Johnson* <ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net>> wrote:
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> On 02/29/08 14:24, Ed Curtis wrote:
>> Just installed a new server that has 4 gigs of ram. Running cat
>> /proc/meminfo shows only 3 gigs of memory. I though maybe there was a
>> bad stick. Checking the bios screen at boot does show 4 gigs. Any
> ideas
>> why etch isn't seeing all 4 gigs?
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> Sure. You're not using a "highmem" kernel.
> Hey,
> Or it could be to do with this:
> http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm
> (short version: a 32 bit os maps other memory into its 4gb address space)
For Linux, that's just *wrong*. For years, 32-bit Linux systems
have been able to access 64GB RAM.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and
make them into big productions."
Pitr Dubovitch
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