From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGSzG-0000CE-5m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:53:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46A10E06E7; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 07:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.linuxant.fr (mx1.linuxant.fr [87.98.143.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD880E06E7 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 07:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (93-136-21-129.adsl.net.t-com.hr [93.136.21.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: xavier) by mx1.linuxant.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 82C635CB0 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:52:53 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mx1.linuxant.fr 82C635CB0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gentooist.com; s=DKIM; t=1259913173; bh=cXCC5MLllLhvywWPtkm1m4NPBI/aZ7iHE3nx86LuKr8=; l=2015; h=Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=E6yxEDkwJkx3t/CmZm7C48gTo8+GrDGDCgL9UmG4gDg8niRj4/swPF4vawON51RSw GiZ6ZPzF+l56RMUSg20Sj38dzdg86FKbBpazERPjmUfqbMZuikl4EVGVUN2DlpXEos zaKkQg8jTOeSDx/hLHxRJpLNg7y0UqXloqgIdZjE= X-DomainKeys: Sendmail DomainKeys Filter v1.0.2 mx1.linuxant.fr 82C635CB0 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=DomainKey; d=gentooist.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to: subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type; b=Iq+ymJ0RYhb94oJCHtsbgUxtlm6pBx7Vuy8g2uFBG7g4xKx9XcuEWqnn+HP/LkxOJ XIWdlRwJacCx+J+JdaqXkPYyLMQzbEEdvHbD2gTPh2BPzwW9+SfsdtPRyq77/vZcYeL E+pcwqUGXmPycwB3TDLsSt08Gls+w3vYG2c9bjU= Message-ID: <4B18BF80.3000900@gentooist.com> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:51:28 +0100 From: Xavier Parizet User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090901) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Acer Core2Duo only sees 3G of RAM References: <200912032214.48193.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200912032244.50406.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912032244.50406.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=156991BF; url=http://www.gentooist.com/?attachment_id=5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA134DC643C4377E9648D0D59" X-Archives-Salt: 76ec8e14-0cad-4230-9291-ce0c22e42d89 X-Archives-Hash: 084bd832d9e0e64f8335a38d06ca1da6 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA134DC643C4377E9648D0D59 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, You don't need to go to bed :) Just setup your kernel to use High-Memory:= cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig; then item: Processor type and features -> High Memory Support -> 4GB And it's done, but keep in mind that userspace processes will still be li= mited to 3GB of memory use (AFAIK) (if someone would like to correct me, he is = welcome). If you want your processes to use more than 3GB of memory, then yes, boot= up with a 64bit OS (again correct me if i'm wrong) ;) HTH. Mick a =E9crit : > Please ignore previous message ... I should have gone to bed by now bec= ause=20 > evidently I am too tired to think clearly! O_O >=20 > I will try to boot up with a 64bit OS next. >=20 > On Thursday 03 December 2009 22:14:36 Mick wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I booted up an Acer Core2Duo (P7550) with 4G of RAM using a Knoppix DV= D and >> only 3G of RAM is visible. Why would that be so? Both cores of the C= PU >> are recognised, so I think that the kernel is SMP enable. I attach t= he >> lspci output in case you see something that explains it. Unfortunate= ly, >> hwinfo fails with an io segmentation ... >> >=20 --=20 Xavier Parizet YaGB : http://gentooist.com GPG : C7DC B10E FC21 63BE B453 D239 F6E6 DF65 1569 91BF --------------enigA134DC643C4377E9648D0D59 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksYv4UACgkQ9ubfZRVpkb99qACfQnw0h8ZP2r+0AAkfLYwmaaex b6IAmgJ1Di6qnQkxgGGuwNuOsKA2tba7 =TYV0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA134DC643C4377E9648D0D59--