Clayton wrote:
Currently running 11.1 openSUSE. "uname -i" results in i386. I have 8GiB of memory "free -m" shows total memory of 3291 Does this mean all my memory is NOT being used?
Looks that way. install the PAE kernel from the repos and you should see all RAM again...
free -m on my system (64bit install with 8GB RAM) shows:
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8000 3150 4849 0 95 1536 -/+ buffers/cache: 1518 6481 Swap: 3906 0 3906
Yast hardware information says the CPU is "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33Ghz xosview shows 4 processors. When I upgrade to 11.2 should I use the X86_64?
If you've got a 64 bit CPU, it makes sense to use a 64 Bit kernel. I've been running 64bit for a while now.. works fine. Tehre isn't really a marked performance inprovement, but things like RAM over 3.2 GB is no longer a prob (and from what I've read, the PAE kernel struggles when you have more than 8GB of RAM).
C.
I'm a little bit confused to say the least. I check the installed rpms with " rpm -qa | grep kernel" and found not only the "default" kernel installed but also "kernel-pae-2.6.27.37-0.1.1". Since I'm currently running the "default" kernel, how do I switch to the "pae" kernel. Also, is there a command to determine if my cpu supports 64bit. Finally, is the pae kernel 32bit supporting memory above 3.2Gb? Thanks for any help. Terry -- openSUSE 11.1 -- Kernel 2.6.27 -- GNU/Linux -- Mon 11/23/09 3:20pm up 1 day 3:48, 3 users, load average: 0.27, 0.46, 0.66 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org