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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:41:11 +0100 From: "Andrew Lyon" <andrew.lyon@...il.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up On 6/6/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote: > 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Could this also cause a system to be unstable? my abit athlon64 at work will not run x64 with more than 1gb ram, and i have a colo server with supermicro & 2 x dual core xeons that will not run with more than 2gb. Both systems have long uptimes but if i add ram they crash within minutes of booting. Tried several kernels up to 2.6.21 and gave up, I can send dmesg output but the crashes are completely random. andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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