Re: Max RAM

Thanks for your reply.
I installed kernel-server-latest (which has PAE), rebooted and now:

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        6224364 kB

Which is great, thank you.
My only obvious issue is that this kernel has no driver for my nvidia card,
so I guess I'll build one...

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Scott Chevalley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/29/2010 12:06 PM, adam jvok wrote:
> > Just got a new PC with more RAM than I've had before. 6GB.
> >
> > The BIOS sees it all OK, but within Mandriva 2010.1 I'm only seeing 3GB.
> >
> > I'm using the Mandriva free version, which I think is 32bit, should I be
> > able to see 4GB not just the 3?
> >
> > cat /proc/meminfo
> > MemTotal:        3241380 kB
> >
> >
> > Second question: If I buy the 64bit version will I have use of all 6GB?
> >
> > Thanks for any advice
>
>
> To see more memory on the 32bit version you can try the PAE kernel, but
> that's probably only enabled on server kernels.
>
> Yes, if you use the 64-bit version you see all 6gb:
>
> ~$ free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       6050384    5862064     188320          0     682500    2849472
> -/+ buffers/cache:    2330092    3720292
> Swap:      4088504          0    4088504
>
>
> I'm using 64bit cooker.
>
>
>