Why FC3 doesn't see 4Gb of RAM?

[Alexander Dalloz]

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.

Alexander


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