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On Wednesday 02 June 2010 16:00:02 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Johannes Kimmel writes: |
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> > On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > > But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use |
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> > > all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little |
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> > > more available? What is your output of free -m? |
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> > Probably your graphicscard uses the rest of the memory. |
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> Oh, thanks! Did not think about this. It's an ATI Radeon HD4300 onboard |
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> card, so I guess this must be the cause. Seems like I will have to do the |
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> migration to 64bit then. |
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> Wonko |
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Wonko, |
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If your graphics card uses up the rest of the memory, moving up to 64bit won't |
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help either. |
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Check in your BIOS to see if you can reduce the amount your graphics card |
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uses. For 'normal' desktop use, around 64MB should be more then sufficient and |
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if you have 4GB physically in your system you should then see more memory |
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appear. |
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Joost Roeleveld |
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