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Max Siegieda wrote: > I'm no expert but every report and my own experience has been that you > cant have 4GB of RAM in a 32bit machine, physically it'll fit but it > wont be in use That is what the Linux bigmem kernels do, that uses PAE which is universal in x86 family processes that are likely to fit a motherboard that can handle that much memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension > and it's a case of luck as to how much beyond 2GB is > registered. Luck? My 4GB machine here has almost all of it available for use by process using default kernel settings of a 32bit kernel. Now the processes themselves hit a 3GB limit because of how the kernel authors chose the layout the virtual memory but virtual memory has very little to do with real memory. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html