How much memory do I have?

[Clint Dilks]

Hi

4G is the Limit but your Bios can cause issues like you are seeing.  Try 
going into your Bios options and seeing if there are relevant options 
there.  On some Desktop Systems in order to access as much of the 4G as 
possible you need to be running a PAE kernel.


Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On 09/21/09 00:11, quoth Frederick Abrams:
>   
>> >From what i remember on a 32Bit the maximum ammount of memory your pc
>> will see/make use of is 3Gb to make use of anything more than 3GB you
>> need to use a 64Bit OS.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Fred
>>
>> On 09/21/2009 08:01 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>     
>>> I just upgraded my MB from 1 to 4Gig of ram.  The relevant part of lshw is
>>> below. So I saw that and then I though I was ok. Then I went and did a cat of
>>> /proc/meminfo
>>>   
>>>       
>
> Can someone confirm this? Last I heard, 32Bits meant 4Gig. The HW sees it.
> lshw sees it. The kernel should not be limited by it. No?
>
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