On Monday 04 June 2007 11:05, G T Smith wrote:
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 :-(
This was in last week's Guardian http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2091227,00.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org