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On Saturday 14 May 2005 5:28 pm, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 16:54 +0200, Christian Parpart wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > |
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> > I finally got it; my Operaton workstation with 2x Opteron248 CPUs and 4GB |
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> > RAM is arrived. However, the BIOS says that I really have 4GB RAM inside, |
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> > that I have, but the Linux is just telling me something about 3GB. |
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> The upper 1G is sometimes lost to PCI etc. adress space |
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> Especially in 32bit mode since the kernel has to allocate some space for |
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> PCI, DMA buffers, ... and it has to fit into 32bit adress space (and 4G |
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> ~= 32bit) |
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so much for (nearly) nothing? kinda strange, I'm running (at least the gentoo |
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linux part) natively 64bit. So, why 32bit mode for *what*? And, how can I |
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reduce this to something more real? (I don't believe that any peripheral card |
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needs such alot of RAM). |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Christian Parpart. |
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