On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
В Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:14:37 +0200 C
пишет: Yes I installed the 32 bit version. With a system with 4GB of RAM, does it really make a difference?
Part of address space below 4G is reserved by BIOS to access peripheral devices. How much - depends on manufacturer. The only way to use memory that overlaps this range is to remap it above 4G.
Yes I'm aware of that. What tripped me up is that I was under the impression that PAE was enabled on all openSUSE kernels, so it shouldn't be a problem anyway. I've installed 32 bit openSUSE on various systems with anywhere between 1GB and 32 GB, and I've always been able to see all of the available RAM. I've never had to explicitly select the PAE kernel for things to work. What I did notice is that when I'm installing this time, I get kernel-default. If I switch that over to kernel-pae, or kernel-desktop, I see all of the RAM. So... apparently PAE is not enabled on all openSUSE kernels like I thought... kernel-default does not have PAE enabled, kernel-desktop and kernel-pae do have it enabled. For whatever reason, instead of getting the usual (for me) kernel-dektop on install, I got kernel-default. Switching over to kernel-desktop "solved" the problem. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 i686 KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org