How much memory do I have?

[Steven W. Orr]

On 09/21/09 00:36, quoth Clint Dilks:
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
>> On 09/21/09 00:23, quoth Clint Dilks:
>>  
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> 4G is the Limit but your Bios can cause issues like you are seeing.  Try
>>> going into your Bios options and seeing if there are relevant options
>>> there.  On some Desktop Systems in order to access as much of the 4G as
>>> possible you need to be running a PAE kernel.
>>>     
>>
>> Ok, How do I tell if my cpu supports PAE? Was that visible in the
>> output I
>> sent or is there something I can run to see it?
>>
>>   
> 
> I haven't looked at your previous message but most modern CPU's have PAE
> support.
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

Score! I did a yum install of kernel-PAE
plus I had to track down the corresponding nvidia klm:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.3.i686.rpm

All is at peace in the multiverse.

FOOM (Formerly of MMMS)



>>> Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On 09/21/09 00:11, quoth Frederick Abrams:
>>>>  
>>>>      
>>>>> >From what i remember on a 32Bit the maximum ammount of memory your pc
>>>>> will see/make use of is 3Gb to make use of anything more than 3GB you
>>>>> need to use a 64Bit OS.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Fred
>>>>>
>>>>> On 09/21/2009 08:01 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I just upgraded my MB from 1 to 4Gig of ram.  The relevant part of
>>>>>> lshw is
>>>>>> below. So I saw that and then I though I was ok. Then I went and did
>>>>>> a cat of
>>>>>> /proc/meminfo
>>>>>>                   
>>>> Can someone confirm this? Last I heard, 32Bits meant 4Gig. The HW sees
>>>> it.
>>>> lshw sees it. The kernel should not be limited by it. No?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>
>>
>>   
> 


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