How much memory do I have?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 16:23 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote: 
> 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.
> 
The PAE kernel is the default kernel in a F11 installation. 
> 
> 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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