Why FC3 doesn't see 4Gb of RAM?

[Roberto Fichera]

At 20.06 24/08/2005, Alexander Dalloz  wrote:

 >Am Mi, den 24.08.2005 schrieb Roberto Fichera um 18:43:
 >
 >> I've a box with 4GB of RAM ( 4 bank of 1G DDR 400) running kernel
 >> 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp
 >> but the kernel does reports only
 >>
 >> Memory: 3316112k/3349696k available (2049k kernel code, 32208k
 >> reserved, 765k data, 228k init, 2432132k highmem)
 >>
 >> it's normal or I lost ~700Mb somewhere !
 >
 >
 >> Roberto Fichera.
 >
 >That is a 32bit world limitation. The amount of RAM you don't see/have
 >is consumed by address space.

Sorry! But what do you mean with "consumed by address space" :-) ? As I see
on memory reports above there are 32Mb of RAM as reserved space, 32Mb are quite
alot so I guess that's for administration.

 >
 >Alexander

Roberto Fichera.