Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2040 mails)

[G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Frank Fiene wrote:
> On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote:
>> On Monday 04 June 2007 09:09:20 Frank Fiene wrote:
>>> I've installed additional 2GB of RAM into my Thinkpad Z61p. My
>>> kernel (latest SUSE-10.2-64bit) sees only 3GB of 4GB!
>>>
>>> Do i have to setup anything to see the whole memory?
>> I've seen this reported elsewhere (on a ThinkPad T60) and it was
>> basically a restriction in the BIOS that prevented the OS from seeing
>> all 4GB of RAM. You might want to look for a BIOS upgrade, or setting
>> - but I'd be prepared to be disappointed if I were you.
> 
> A colleague of mine is running the same machine with Vista (32bit!!) and 
> everything is fine! :-(
> 
> Also 32bit Linux kernel should be fine with PAE, not?
> 
> I'll have a look at the BIOS.

I have been trying to track the article down, but I came across
something recently that suggested that because some video cards mapped
memory somewhere in the 3Gb region, the effective memory became about
3Gb on these systems. This is apparently a problem both for linux and
windows OS machines.

The thrust of the article was that there was not a lot of point buying
more than 2Gb on a desktop/laptop PC. (Which may have something to do
with why I cannot find it any more...)

I came across the link below which outlines the issue to some extent..

> http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/2005/08/05/is3gbenough

but this is not the original article :-(
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