where's my memory?

[Bill Davidsen]

????????? ?????? wrote:
> seems to me you used 32-bits OS. THis kind of OS cannot see more then 
> 3GB. Please try to send request to google like 3G RAM limit.
> You will receive detail explanation
> 
Since no one else has brought it to your attention, that's wrong. Intel/AMD 32 
bit system of any remotely recent vintage support 36 bits of physical memory 
addressing. This machine I'm on has 8GB, another 12GB, see it all. Individual 
processes are limited to less, less being 3, 3.5, or 4.0GB dependig on kernel 
settings (and patches). User programs have that limit, but the kernel can use more.

Ex:
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8310084    8074736     235348          0     121844    6046808
-/+ buffers/cache:    1906084    6404000
Swap:      3911736          8    3911728


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