From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:58:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100602175826.16d43c62@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006021748.31527.wonko@wonkology.org>
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:48:28 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > If your graphics card uses up the rest of the memory, moving up to
> > 64bit won't help either.
>
> Shouldn't I have 4GB minus the amount of graphics memory then, instead
> of 3G minus that?
Some BIOSes only show a maximum of 3GB with the default settings. ISTR
it's something to do with mapping PCI address space over the last GB. I
had to change a BIOS option to see all 4GB on my system.
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-02 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-02 13:27 [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit Alex Schuster
2010-06-02 13:42 ` Johannes Kimmel
2010-06-02 14:00 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-02 14:41 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-06-02 15:48 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-02 16:58 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-06-16 9:14 ` 64 bits (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit) Alex Schuster
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