linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up

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Date:	Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:12:05 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
CC:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	tmoore@...tial.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> Seems like an improvement to me.  To fully explain how it could be 3 or
> 3.5 or 3.25 or who knows how many GB you can actually use without PAE
> would probably require writing a small novel.  Certainly talking about
> address space instead of amounts of physical memory is more correct.
> 

On some machines it's even just 2 GB.

	-hpa
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