Re: [tlug] 4Gb RAM with 32bit kernels

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 5 November 2010 19:28, Lars Kotthoff <lists@example.com> wrote:
>> My laptop (Compaq Presario CQ60) came with 4G of RAM, but I can only see
>> 3G of it (prolly a limitation of my 32-bit system). Is there any way I
>> can get at
>> it from Linux for a RAM disk or something like that? Is it worth doing?
>
> You need to set the kernel option for support for up to 64GB -- confusingly,
> just setting support for up to 4GB is not enough (see
> http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/119287). If you are running Debian or
> Ubuntu, it's the kernel package that ends in -bigmem.

That article is about 3yo. From what I've seen most kernels are doing that
properly now. I think Ubuntu since 9.04 has been.

Jim

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Jim Breen
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