On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Mike Chambers <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:17 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:Does that work on only 4Gb or more? I have 2Gb Ram, and running 64bit,
> Maybe someone can word this better than I but here it goes. The memory
> limit is not really tied to the OS "TYPE" (i.e. Windows XP/Vista,
> Linux, etc) but more to the architecture (32-bit vs. 64-bit). As far
> as I'm aware, all 32-bit OS's will have this limitation and all 64-bit
> OS's will not. You can get Windows XP, Vista or Linux in both 32 and
> 64-bit flavors.
>
> So to answer your question (c), yes, if you switch to a 64bit version
> of Linux you will be able to use all 4GB.
and still only see 1.8Gb of memory, as it did with 32bit as well.
In that case something is definitely reserving some memory. I often see this in systems with onboard video which usually do not have dedicated video ram.
Richard.
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