Bruce Guenter wrote:
> Not completely accurate. i386 Linux will indeed have problems using the
> entire first 4GB, but it can access up to 64GB of RAM if your
> motherboard can handle it. Note that a number of motherboards that
> advertise that they can handle 4GB of RAM have bugs that prevent
> accessing the top 1GB.
>
Perhaps I misunderstand this, but I seem to be using the whole 4GB of
RAM in this box:
scott@fileserver:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 4149616 kB
MemFree: 41392 kB
Buffers: 211980 kB
Cached: 3493836 kB
SwapCached: 5476 kB
Active: 2321712 kB
Inactive: 1487372 kB
HighTotal: 3276736 kB
HighFree: 8396 kB
LowTotal: 872880 kB
LowFree: 32996 kB
SwapTotal: 1951888 kB
SwapFree: 1936392 kB
Dirty: 367080 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 759852 kB
Slab: 206224 kB
CommitLimit: 4026696 kB
Committed_AS: 427420 kB
PageTables: 6544 kB
VmallocTotal: 118776 kB
VmallocUsed: 3552 kB
VmallocChunk: 114912 kB
Received on Thu Dec 13 12:49:39 2007
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