Re: RAM shows less

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On Tue May 11 2010, Mike Guilmot wrote:
> > > Just a question here... are you running a 32-bit version of Fedora
> > > or a
> > 
> > 64-
> > 
> > > bit version? 32-bit versions will only show about 3 gigs of memory,
> > > no matter how much if you have 20 Gigs, you'll only see 3.
> > 
> > What?
> > 
> > [egreshko@meimei RSS-Estimates_Docs]$ cat /proc/meminfo
> > MemTotal:        8255264 kB
> > 
> > [egreshko@meimei RSS-Estimates_Docs]$ uname -r
> > 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE
> 
> The PAE kernels do not have the 3 GB limitation. No idea about the
> non-PAE kernels though.
> I can see my full 4 Gb in 32b PAE kernel too.
> 
> MemTotal:        4113744 kB
> 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE
I sit corrected. IT has been my understanding that 32-bit kernels could not 
see or maybe could not *access* more than 3 Gigs of memory?
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