From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2731381FA for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 09:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91BACE09D2; Thu, 22 May 2014 09:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f41.google.com (mail-yh0-f41.google.com [209.85.213.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A42CE09C1 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 09:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f41.google.com with SMTP id f73so2718914yha.14 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 02:25:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E9621c4OgukQ4nFD5cMh1X3ZJs9IH2YlRIO0vMdoHBc=; b=ejsobV4viJjg4Ot40AOjEn6vDfEzpLcX1+bBN9LyEwH1900/eokCiY6WXJXklpx3/M yU+GfxLDLRDXCufsAH+LdNnmKnpnwpX8I2CR37IcboKTdazF11lkHCPBLlruqChyk2Nr rTEytt0yPDisdkewrGKJQnIiCtbnKcEkHOai/DX6nz5UGV3TNgwP/NmllXnnzlj4Mbpp ahhU1f4wN8lerzkeZdjzocJkDgmzpjFEUkTV1klVjwVHDGD+CzBsX4UC2Ik+831QRQ7j kQ1RpZ9GZjlwfE1Q90MyzfJZ8kMe5kllwaRlJq6eFHirXMiISKrcCTxYeJR16GYOUNRz zpRA== X-Received: by 10.236.55.33 with SMTP id j21mr81544519yhc.85.1400750750694; Thu, 22 May 2014 02:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-130-91.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.130.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r23sm38333833yhb.46.2014.05.22.02.25.49 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 22 May 2014 02:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <537DC29D.8090602@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 04:25:49 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26 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] Only 4 of 8 GB usable References: <20140521233751.319ef024@weird.wonkology.org> <537D34B3.7070204@wraeth.id.au> <537D5507.7030507@gmail.com> <20140522100833.35287b3a@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140522100833.35287b3a@digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 626f315e-0dba-4051-a58b-d4fb801f1e6b X-Archives-Hash: 802c50655032eed286f1b84e71c15c4f 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!