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From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to make all of 4GB of memory available?
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:19:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081002011904.GA22197@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E41426.9060006@shaw.ca>

Robert Hancock wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> >New mobo, 4 core AMD Phenom cpu & 4 GB of dram.  I cannot find the switch 
> >in a make xconfig that will allow use of all of it, I am only seeing 3GB.
> >
> >Am I going blind in my dotage?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> 
> HIGHMEM64G. Or better yet, use a 64-bit kernel.

It may be a little odd, but I have a 64-bit x86 that I'm running 32-bit
kernel.  Mostly because I had some odd problems with various programs I was
using.  But was what more odd was the fact that I had a little less memory
(~100mb) with a 64-bit kernel than with a 32-bit PAE kernel.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.LzFGkHEK7iy88LF74OslLpTs7d0@ifi.uio.no>
2008-10-02  0:21 ` How to make all of 4GB of memory available? Robert Hancock
2008-10-02  1:19   ` Wakko Warner [this message]
2008-10-01 18:17 Gene Heskett
2008-10-01 18:28 ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-01 21:08 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-10-01 22:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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