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 1OJoZF-0005gK-Rg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:05:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A8FDE0FF5 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:05:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F3D8E0E5F for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Jun 2010 13:41:50 -0000 Received: from p5B0ACB2D.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.1.11]) [91.10.203.45] by mail.gmx.net (mp069) with SMTP; 02 Jun 2010 15:41:50 +0200 X-Authenticated: #17302818 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/j6dcglcrjxYbZqAJFceciCthMSJsoILgXMnxihd 3T4tdIVZz0Q6ut Message-ID: <4C065FE2.4040104@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:42:58 +0200 From: Johannes Kimmel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100509 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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] Maximizing memory with 32bit References: <201006021527.49525.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <201006021527.49525.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: b47b84ae-2d03-47cc-b850-aba88a8911c0 X-Archives-Hash: 7f3db5fdc1b24a5e1d9901fc0b76af2c On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > I have 4GB of RAM, but the system is swapping A LOT. I think I will have > to go to 64 bit, but I need some time for that, and I need to use the > system in the meantime. > > But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all > the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little more > available? What is your output of free -m? > > wonko@weird ~ $ zgrep HIGHMEM /proc/config.gz > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > # CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is not set > > Wonko > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. Johannes Kimmel