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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 04:25:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537DC29D.8090602@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140522100833.35287b3a@digimed.co.uk>

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something?  I
>> seem to recall having to turn that on at some point.  I would think this
>> would be on by default but . . . .
> That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The live CD idea is a good one, also
> run memtest86+ to make sure the RAM is not only seen but working.
>
>


Could be.  I can't recall if it was on my new rig or my older rig that I
had to do that on.  Old age and got to much stuff going on. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

-- 
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!



  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-22  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-21 21:37 [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable Alex Schuster
2014-05-21 23:20 ` wraeth
2014-05-22  1:38   ` Dale
2014-05-22  8:02     ` covici
2014-05-22  9:08     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-05-22  9:25       ` Dale [this message]
2014-05-22  2:43   ` wraeth
2014-05-22  8:10 ` Daniel Troeder
2014-05-26  5:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2014-05-27  3:19   ` ny6p01
2014-06-08 18:43 ` Kai Krakow

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