4 Gig in new Prec 490 showing as 3 Gig?

[Charles C. Bennett, Jr.]

If you're running Fedora and need PAE, try

 yum install kernel-PAE

dmidecode should let you see your memory sticks...

ccb


On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:44 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Well, I'm running Fedora 7, not Ubuntu, so are you sure
> that this would work on my system?
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Martin Owens" <doctormo at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Derek,
> >
> > Can I ask a favour, I've been doing research for my
> > dohickey-project.com in which I ask people to run a script which
> > scrapes a number of hardware details (nothing identifiable) and lets
> > me test my app against your hardware profile.
> >
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=391081
> >
> > Only useful if you've got Linux and HAL installed, and I'll be able to
> > tell you what the RAM is dead easy.
> >
> > Best Regards, Martin Owens
> >
> > On 03/05/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > As mentioned previously, to see more than 3GB you need to have PAE
> >> > enabled. Linux will be able to access the 4GB (or in this case 3.5GB),
> >> > but on a 32-bit system your applications are limited to 3GB.
> >> > Here is a pretty good detailed explanation:
> >> > http://kerneltrap.org/node/2450
> >>
> >> Okay... So how does one enable PAE?  (I've got 4GB in my new t60
> >> but it seems to only see 3GB of it)
> >>
> >> -derek
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