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On 13/09/10 19:30, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > Just to add confusion to the issue ;-) It's not an area I've really > tinkered with, but on my 32-bit Atom desktop, it's 1065349120 bytes. I > have 2GB of RAM and 2GB of swap configured. It would be 2GB if the kernel could address it properly. When I say it is usually the size of physical memory I mean the size of physical memory addressable by the kernel. I kind of assume everyone has a kernel that can address all their machines physical memory, although there are good reasons why you might not want things configured that way. I assume Atom processors can use bigmem kernels if needed?! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq