Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 00:34 +0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
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.
Some minor points, After changing/installing mem: always have memtest running for over 24 hours.
Moving to 64-bit might be a step too big, afaik, no all applications/drivers were 64-safe (wasn't there something with the latest version of flash???)
Flash is not available in native 64 bit form, so you end up having to use the 32 bit version of firefox etc. to get it to work. It's just a pain to have that requirement for things like Flash, when 64 bit firefox is fine...
Thought that PAE (physical address extension) was also an solution to get beyond the 4GB-limit
PAE will certainly let you see, and use, more than 4GB of memory but you can still only address 4GB at any one time. It's a bit of a cludgey (but the only one we've got) workaround to the 32 bit address restrictions. It ends up resorting to tricks similar to mapping in the memory above 4GB when required. For resource intensive applications, 64 bit is the way to go. Jon -- Jonathan Ervine Premium Support Engineer - NTS UK tel: +44 (0) 1344 326 057 mob: +44 (0) 7802 357 042 mob (HK): 9649 5745 SUSE(r) Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready(tm) http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org