[ubuntu-uk] New omputer.......Ubuntu install help
Alan Pope
alan at popey.com
Thu Apr 7 12:56:29 UTC 2011
On 7 April 2011 13:54, Lee Williams <lee.willy1977.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not a problem installing 32bit on a machine with > ~3.5GB ram... rather
> the memory after the ~3.5GB or so is not "dedicated to system resources";
> rather, system resources have used up the remaining memory *addresses*, so
> the memory cannot be seen nor used by anything, as it has no address. When
> 2GB RAM is installed, system components taking up 1GB or so of addresses has
> no effect, as there are 4GB of addresses in total, meaning 3GB of addresses
> are left available for the 2GB of RAM.
>
I had to read that a few times, and it still makes no sense.
Fact is an install of Ubuntu on 32-bit system _can_ see and _use_ all
of the RAM.
Al.
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