On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 14:46 +0100, Joshua C. wrote: > What I expect is that the i686 detects about 3GB of free memory (not > the whole 4GB). according to different forums linux (and windows x86) > x86 should be able to detect up to 3,2GB of free memory (the limit of > 32bits). but my fedora 9 i686 sees only 2,25gb (which is away from the > 3GB). Windowsxp sees exactly the same amount of memory. > So either i got a crapy mashine or the forums are wrong. Check your motherboard firmware revision, I've seen bugs where certain firemware will limit what the software can see. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list