On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: >> >> Dennis Gilmore suggested that I boot a 64 bit Live CD to see what it >> said about memory usage. So I did: >> >> [fedora@localhost ~]$ free -m >> total used free shared buffers >> cached >> Mem: 3969 1286 2682 0 143 >> 827 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 315 3654 >> Swap: 1992 0 1992 >> >> Here is what it looks like under my 32 bit installation: >> >> $ free -m >> total used free shared buffers >> cached >> Mem: 3034 978 2055 0 33 >> 619 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 326 2708 >> Swap: 1992 0 1992 >> >> I appear to gain 935MB of RAM running the 64 bit version. This is in >> spite of the spec sheet on my laptop saying: >> > > Could it be simply that free does not show the space needed by the > kernel.... which needs (at least some parts of it) > to be constantly in memory. I do not think that 127Mb is such a big price to > pay for the kernel. Note that to use your > memory in a single process you need x86-64. The standard x86 linux limits > the processes memory to 2Gb. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > If you run the PAE kernel, then all of your memory will be seen and used by the OS. It is what I use when I use a desktop system so that I do not have to deal with x86_64 type desktop issues. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
