On Thursday 02 October 2008, Adam Hough wrote: >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. I am now running it, seems fine. Now if we could figgur out why grub takes about a minute to present the boot menu. I did just now update the bios, and now the blinking display if using the hdmi cable for about the first 5 minutes seems to be gone. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) system consumed all the paper for paging -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
