Subject: Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Alejandro Bonilla <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:19:15 +0200
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Hi Alejandro,

> > so there is no way to give me back the "lost" memory. Is it possible
> > that another motherboard might help?
> 
> AFAIK, No. AMD and Intel will always do the same thing until we all move to
> real IA64.
> 
> Unless there is some sort of kernel hack that will do some crazy thing to give
> you the power there.

do you think that activating NUMA emulation might help?

> But hey, look at it this way, if you remove 1GB, you will lose the Dual
> Channel capability.

I could have bought two 512 MB modules ;)

Regards

Marcel


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