4 Gig in new Prec 490 showing as 3 Gig?

[Derek Atkins]

Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> writes:

> iff your kernel is built with PAE support, which in my world, is not the case 
> for the base kernel. Red Hat's stock i686 kernel is non-PAE, as there are 
> i686 systems that don't support PAE, and will fail to boot. Red Hat also 
> ships an i686 kernel-PAE package for those that need PAE. But so far as I 
> know, PAE is really only relevant/needed if you have *more* than 4GB of RAM 
> on a 32-bit system. That seems to fall in line with the rest of Alex's 
> comments below.

Yeah, I suppose I could go install the PAE kernel to try it..
I know I have 4GB.  But lots of places seem to imply that
the chipset max is 3GB.

I was hoping that Linux would be able to access it all, but
I can't see how to get Linux to see that extra 1GB.

-derek
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