Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936186AbXFFWM3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:12:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753421AbXFFWMV (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:12:21 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:46943 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752061AbXFFWMT (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 18:12:19 -0400 Message-ID: <46673135.30105@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:12:05 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lennart Sorensen CC: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Andi Kleen , tmoore@spatial.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: 4Gb ram not showing up References: <20070606143723.GF10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070606143723.GF10008@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 16 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Seems like an improvement to me. To fully explain how it could be 3 or > 3.5 or 3.25 or who knows how many GB you can actually use without PAE > would probably require writing a small novel. Certainly talking about > address space instead of amounts of physical memory is more correct. > On some machines it's even just 2 GB. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/