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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit.
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:06:25
Message-Id: 4d26534d.4345df0a.108a.ffffeca3@mx.google.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit. by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Thursday 06 January 2011 23:32:01 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > * Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > > > Apropos total memory: on my box w/ 4GB, it only shows up 3GB.
4 > > >
5 > > > On bootup, kernel (built w/ CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y) says:
6 > > > 2119MB HIGHMEM available.
7 > > > 887MB LOWMEM available.
8 > > >
9 > > > Who's eating up a whole GB ? BIOS ? GPU ?
10 > >
11 > > bios
12 >
13 > BIOS really eats it all up, or maybe some misconfiguration that
14 > causes memory hidden from the OS ?
15 >
16 >
17 > cu
18
19 the misconfiguration is done by the bios, mapping pcispace&co into the 3-4gb
20 range

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Memory usage; 32 bit vs 64 bit. Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>