Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jun 06 2007 - 18:12:30 EST


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> Seems like an improvement to me. To fully explain how it could be 3 or
> 3.5 or 3.25 or who knows how many GB you can actually use without PAE
> would probably require writing a small novel. Certainly talking about
> address space instead of amounts of physical memory is more correct.
>

On some machines it's even just 2 GB.

-hpa
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