On 27/04/10 12:32, Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > On 26 April 2010 14:45, ian pettitt<ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote: >> Hi All >> >> With the upcoming release of 10.04, I have decided to reinstall my work >> machine and move from 32 to 64 bit. I need to run multiple virtual >> machines and this will mean that if everything works as hoped I will be >> able to replace the second machine I have running windows XP - I work in >> a Windows only organisation. I have increased my RAM to 6 gig in >> preparation! >> > > Hi, > > I'm running 64-bit Lucid with 4GB of RAM, however Lucid is only seeing > 3.1GB. It may be I have to set something in BIOS I haven't had time to > look into it fully yet, but be aware that it might not just see your > 6GB straight off. > > Tom >
Strange, I'm running Lucid 32-Bit on my machine (with 4GB Ram) and it sees the full 4GB fine. I gather the kernel has got PAE extensions or whatever it is to support over 3.25GB (although I gather the memory limit per process is 4GB, not a problem for me though since I only have 4GB Ram anyway). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
