From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Thomas Stewart <thomas@stewarts.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Only 3.2G ram out of 4G seen in an i386 box
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:22:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D89E39.1000908@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.FhtZk3YiH9OyGCt4iXIGt+vYtos@ifi.uio.no>
Thomas Stewart wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a Dell Optiplex GX280, a Pentium 4 with an Intel chipset. It has
> 4G of ram. The problem is I can only see 3.2G, even tho the bios reports
> 4G.
There was a thread on this subject a little while ago. Essentially it is
a chipset limitation (i.e. lack of support for memory hole remapping,
memory hoisting, whatever you want to call it) and there's nothing that
can really be done about it. Even a 64-bit kernel will have the same
problem.
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2006-08-08 14:22 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-08-08 9:13 Only 3.2G ram out of 4G seen in an i386 box Mikael Pettersson
2006-08-08 10:01 ` Thomas Stewart
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2006-08-08 8:24 Thomas Stewart
2006-08-08 10:15 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2006-08-08 19:51 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-09 6:51 ` gmu 2k6
2006-08-09 14:48 ` Joel Jaeggli
2006-08-09 14:54 ` gmu 2k6
2006-08-10 21:09 ` Simen Thoresen
2006-08-11 11:08 ` gmu 2k6
2006-08-13 10:54 ` Simen Thoresen
2006-08-10 13:04 ` Thomas Stewart
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