On 02/03/2009 05:01 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/01/2009 10:04 AM, Mirko Scurk wrote: > [snip] >> >> Could it be that 32-bit Debian can't access rest of memory? >> > > That would only be an issue if he could only see (I think) 2GB of his > 4GB RAM. > Really?The only system on which I've >3Gb of ram and a 32bit OS is my Windows laptop, and that reports 3.5Gb of the ~4Gb that's in there. I've no idea how to get a less-rounded number for it out of Windows.
That's a design issue (I think) specific to Windows. Has to do with the decision to map video card RAM into regular address space (even on machines with discreet video cards).
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