[Emc-users] ubu 10.04.4 LTS Q

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 July 2013 15:54:56 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine:

> Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> >Greetings;  I just put 8Gb of dram in this machine, and the bios
> >recognized
> >it just fine.
> >
> >But the 32 bit SMP/PAE kernel in the LinuxCNC tree only sees 4 Gb.
> >
> >This kernel:
> >
> >2.6.32-122-rtai #rtai SMP Tue Jul 27 12:44:07 CDT 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
> >Humm, maybe its not a PAE kernel. :(
> >
> >Is this fixable w/o going to a 64 bit install?
> 
> To use more than 4 gigs of ram you need either a 64-bit kernel or a
> 32-bit kernel with pae.
> 
> Neither is likely to be developed for LinuxCNC 2.5 on Ubuntu 10.04
> Lucid.  The RTOS work that Michael and Zultron are doing should get us
> a 64-bit kernel for Lucid and Precise for 2.6.

I am waiting then, hopefully without any baited odor on my breath. :)

Thanks Seb.

Cheers, Gene
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