Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexandru Matei wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Ok, from what I understand, I'll never see the entire 4GB unless I
> install a 64-bit OS. But I would still like to be able to run openSuse
> 10.2. :) Does anyone know why the issue below happens?

Wrong.
You will never see the entire 4GB *EVER* because the OS does
allow it's own memory footprint to be shown as "available memory"


And SuSE has been releasing the 64-bit kernels since 10.0..maybe
even 9.3.


> Thank you very much,
> Alex
>
> On 5/8/07, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Alexandru Matei wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've recently upgraded my RAM to 4GB and since then, when the X server
> > > starts, the computer slows down a lot - what I mean by slows down is
> > > that:
> > >
> > > - although there is some occasional hard disk activity, I never see
> > > the KDE Desktop, I only get the mouse pointer and that's it
> > > - if I start a console with Ctrl+Alt+F1, it takes about a minute to
> > > see the command prompt from the moment I type my (correct) password
> > > - if after logging in I use the Midnight Commander, it's response is
> > > very slow and slurgish and navigation through folders is very slow
> > >
> > > When I still had 2GB everything was ok. I'm using openSUSE 10.2 on a
> > > Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 Ghz, 4 MB L2 Cache, FSB 1066 Mhz / Intel DP965LT
> > > motherboard / 4 x 1 GB Corsair DDR2 675 Mhz, 4-4-4-12 / ATI Radeon
> > > EAX1300 256MB / WDC S-ATA II 250 GB HDD.
> > >
> > > Booting the XEN kernel (second option in the bootloader) works (but no
> > > ATI video driver is taken into consideration, it defaults to VESA
> > > mode), but using the default one causes the above problem.
> > >
> > > Could you please be as kind so as to give me a suggestion to fix this
> > > issue? It's really frustrating, as Windows XP and Vista work ok (but
> > > they don't see the entire 4GB, only 3.25 GB), but I would rather use
> > > Linux instead (and hopefully have all 4GB available).
> > >
> >
> > The Kernel always takes up a certain amount of space, and thus
> > you will never have *ALL* of the memory listed as "available" --
> > otherwise, the kernel could be overwritten with user programs
> > and/or data....which would definitely be a BAD THING.
> >
> > As to why you're seeing this with 4GB of mem, but not 2 GB...
> > perhaps because you also have swap space... and the kernel
> > is trying to figure out how to manage 4GB + (swap partition)
> > worth of virtual memory all WITHIN a 32-bit address space..
> >
> >
> > > Thank you very much,
> > > Alex
> >
> >
> >
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