ram

[David Fox]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:33 PM, bill biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com> wrote:
>  just install  8.04 ubuntu 32 bit I have 4 g of ram but ubuntu 32 only
> see 3 g any ides

To fully use the 4g you have on a 32 bit kernel, you may need a kernel
with support for all 4g of ram.

But I'm not sure about that, but it's been suggested in other
distributions to use specialized kernels. On Ubuntu, I only see
kernels for -generic, -xen, and -server flavors. It may be that if you
specially installed the -server version of the kernel you use, you
might get it to recognize all 4g.

If your machine is capable of doing 64 bit, and you have 4g, you will
be better off running a 64-bit system because there is no overhead in
accessing that extra RAM, whilst on i386 systems (32-bit) there is
going to be some overhead.