Hi Tim, The last little while today, copies of mail to debian-user keeps coming back unchanged from you.
Doug. On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:51:11PM -0500, Tim DeWall wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:11 PM > Subject: Re: 1GB RAM is missing. > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 10/23/07 18:00, Stephen Cormier wrote: > >>On October 23, 2007 05:32:55 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>On 10/23/07 14:16, Stephen Cormier wrote: > >>>[snip] > >>> > >>>>You are going to have to accept that you are never going to get all 4gb > >>>>running a 32bit install due to the limitations of using 32bit where > >>>>things > >>>At the pid level, or at the OS level? > >> > >>I take it by pid you mean a process if so then it is my understanding > >>IIRC > >>that on a 32bit install you are limited to 2gb maximum of memory that can > >>be > >>used by a single process. The limitations I talk about here are BIOS/arch > >>limited where a certain amount of memory is reserved for things like your > >>video card, interrupts ... this has to be mapped below 4gb so a hole in > >>the > >>memory has to be there for it to be used, like back in the DOS days where > >>you > >>had the 15mb-16mb memory hole option in the BIOS. I believe that was just > >>video related though if my memory serves me but the principle is the same > >>the > >>space needs to be reserved on 32bit thus lowers the total ram available > >>on > >>64bit it is not needed to be reserved so you get all the memory. > > > >Modern 32 bit processors and chipsets map around those limitations. > > > >For many years there have been 32-bit server motherboards that > >accept and use (in both Linux and Windows) up to 64GB RAM. > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension > >http://kerneltrap.org/node/2450 > > > >- -- > >Ron Johnson, Jr. > >Jefferson LA USA > > > >Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. > >Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > > >iD8DBQFHHn+NS9HxQb37XmcRAkTYAKDqvraUagQsTic3zAh5Jxnmv1JcBgCgmIZp > >Xx80pVwwfwdYmW9Hn4hmKhY= > >=lpQI > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
