Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

["Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/4/2012 6:30 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
> Swapnil Bhartiya said the following on 01/04/2012 06:06 AM:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > openSUSE is showing only 3.9GB of RAM whereas I have 8GB installed on
> > the system. Sometimes FF takes upto 800MG which slows the browser. I
> > have installed 64bit version which should show full RAM. It shows OK
> > under Ubuntu.
> >
> > Sysinfo:/
> >
> > OS:  Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64
>
> Try running the "-PAE" version of the kernel.
> Read the kernel notes as to why you should do that if you have more than
> 4G of memory.

x86_64 obviates -pae

Verify the motherboard/bios actually sees more than 4G.
Sounds like a hardware/firmware compatibility thing not a linux kernel 
thing.

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