Stevens wrote: > Now that this thread is open, maybe someone can explain > something... or maybe I know it already... > > It goes like this: > > A pc can only use about 3 GB of RAM because the top GB is > used by the system for peripheral addressing, etc. > > (IMHO an x86 based computer is not a "pc" unless a "pc" OS is installed on it) At any rate, the x86 arch covers a lot of ground, capacity-wise:
Here's a small linux/386 server: top - 10:31:03 up 395 days, 13:06, 1 user, load average: 0.89, 0.55, 0.44 Tasks: 237 total, 1 running, 236 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.8% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.1% id, 1.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 4082748k total, 3697928k used, 384820k free, 90344k buffers Swap: 4198296k total, 8k used, 4198288k free, 3007020k cached Here's a medium linux/386 server: top - 10:31:35 up 395 days, 12:17, 1 user, load average: 0.94, 0.93, 0.97 Tasks: 191 total, 2 running, 189 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 5.2% us, 0.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 93.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 7789024k total, 3423964k used, 4365060k free, 193164k buffers Swap: 8392536k total, 126452k used, 8266084k free, 727676k cached Here's a fairly good sized linux/x86_64 server: top - 10:30:39 up 399 days, 21:30, 1 user, load average: 0.53, 0.46, 0.45 Tasks: 228 total, 1 running, 227 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.3%id, 2.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16443912k total, 16280288k used, 163624k free, 132800k buffers Swap: 8393952k total, 128k used, 8393824k free, 12153856k cached Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
