Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:46:05PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2
> processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with
> a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From
> reading, I think I need to change the kernel to the bigmem version
> but all of the packages shown are for much older versions (or they
> seem to be). If I install the linux-image-686-bigmem dummy package
> will it automatically pick the latest kernel version or not? If not
> what do I do?
Yes, it will.
For what it's worth, I've found that moving to cheap modern
systems is usually worth the motherboard + CPU cost because DDR3
RAM is so cheap.
-dsr-
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