4 Gig in new Prec 490 showing as 3 Gig?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Well, I'm running Fedora 7, not Ubuntu, so are you sure
that this would work on my system?

-derek

"Martin Owens" <doctormo at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Derek,
>
> Can I ask a favour, I've been doing research for my
> dohickey-project.com in which I ask people to run a script which
> scrapes a number of hardware details (nothing identifiable) and lets
> me test my app against your hardware profile.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=391081
>
> Only useful if you've got Linux and HAL installed, and I'll be able to
> tell you what the RAM is dead easy.
>
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>
> On 03/05/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:
>>
>> > As mentioned previously, to see more than 3GB you need to have PAE
>> > enabled. Linux will be able to access the 4GB (or in this case 3.5GB),
>> > but on a 32-bit system your applications are limited to 3GB.
>> > Here is a pretty good detailed explanation:
>> > http://kerneltrap.org/node/2450
>>
>> Okay... So how does one enable PAE?  (I've got 4GB in my new t60
>> but it seems to only see 3GB of it)
>>
>> -derek
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