Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-17 Thread Martín Marqués
2012/7/16 jdow : > On 2012/07/16 04:55, Paweł Brodacki wrote: >> >> In short: Works as designed. You may try to disable devices you do not >> use to salvage some address space, but you won't reach 4096 MB >> available. > > > This is well known issue. The missing space is occupied by the page table

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-17 Thread Alan Cox
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Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-17 Thread Richard Vickery
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > This is well known issue. The missing space is occupied by the page table > > index. When pages are 4k in size you need a lot of table entries to > describe > > a full 4 gigabytes, like a million of them. Linux seems to have optimized > > this

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Alan Cox
> This is well known issue. The missing space is occupied by the page table > index. When pages are 4k in size you need a lot of table entries to describe > a full 4 gigabytes, like a million of them. Linux seems to have optimized > this a little. Windows loses a bit more memory, if I recall correc

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread jdow
On 2012/07/16 04:55, Paweł Brodacki wrote: 2012/7/16 Martín Marqués : I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank put in the Motherboard (the motherbo

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Paweł Brodacki
2012/7/16 Martín Marqués : > 2012/7/16 Paweł Brodacki : >> 2012/7/16 Martín Marqués : >>> I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. >>> Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. >>> >>> Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank >>> put

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Martín Marqués
2012/7/16 Paweł Brodacki : > 2012/7/16 Martín Marqués : >> I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. >> Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. >> >> Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank >> put in the Motherboard (the motherboard

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Martín Marqués
2012/7/15 Reindl Harald : > > > Am 16.07.2012 02:14, schrieb Martín Marqués: >> I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. >> Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. >> >> Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank >> put in the Motherb

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:16:01 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 16.07.2012 02:14, schrieb Martín Marqués: > > I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. > > Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. > > > > Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Mark Haney
On 07/16/2012 11:28 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: are you sure? I have the same problem with an ASROCK board (Conroe DVI/H): 4 GB mem installed (2x2GB bars), and only 3.34 G available. And: I'm running *F17/x86_64*. > 32bit OS is bad for modern computers Kind regards Joachim Backes I don'

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Joachim Backes
On 07/16/2012 02:16 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.07.2012 02:14, schrieb Martín Marqués: I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank put in the Mot

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.07.2012 02:14, schrieb Martín Marqués: > I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. > Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. > > Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank > put in the Motherboard (the motherboard says it can

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-16 Thread Paweł Brodacki
2012/7/16 Martín Marqués : > I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. > Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. > > Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank > put in the Motherboard (the motherboard says it can handle up to 32Gb > o

Re: Memory on new computer

2012-07-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 07/15/2012 07:14 PM, Martín Marqués wrote: I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank put in the Motherboard (the motherboard says it can handle up

Memory on new computer

2012-07-15 Thread Martín Marqués
I had a problem with my main board and CPU and had to buy a new one. Also memory, as the old computer had DDR2 memory. Th problem is that I see only 3.5Gb of memory, while I had a 4Gb bank put in the Motherboard (the motherboard says it can handle up to 32Gb or ram). I saw this in dmesg: [0.