[ubuntu-us-ut] why is my 4G of ram only showing as 2G with 32bit PAE? (was: 64-bit vs 32-bit)

[Christian Horne]

/proc/meminfo

why would the bios support it but a 32 bit PAE not? that's what i'm
trying to ask!

On 4/8/10, Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/8/2010 2:29 PM, Christian Horne wrote:
>> memtest comes up fine and it all shows up in the bios.
>
> Because your BIOS reports 4GB, doesn't mean that the kernel can use it.
> Maybe you can be more specific on exactly what you mean "why is my 4G of
> ram only showing as 2G with 32bit PAE?". What utility is reporting 2G?
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