Re: [SLE] SuSE 10.1 32bit and 4GB RAM, seen are 3.5GB

On 8/27/06, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Martin Köbele [08-27-06 19:46]:

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My computer, a Dell Optiplex 620 has a Intel P4 XEON HT with 4x 1GB RAM. The kernel sees 3.5 GB only.

By default the kernel has HIGHMEM enabled and is set to 64GB.

Check your motherboard documentation.

I will. what would it say? Why is that a motherboard issue? I have no RAID nor PCI controllers which could occupie the last 0.5GB. I have 4GB GA-K8NN Ultra-SLI 4200+ SMP dual x86_64

21:04 wahoo:~ > free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3349376 2275016 1074360 0 131076 1189104 -/+ buffers/cache: 954836 2394540 Swap: 514040 0 514040

so you have the same problem, don't you? actually I thought a 64bit system should not have this problem since it can address natively more memory than a 32bit system which can address only 3GB of memory. Thanks. Martin