On Thursday 04 July 2013 15:54:56 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine: > Gene Heskett <[email protected]> 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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> I am not very happy acting pleased whenever prominent scientists overmagnify intellectual enlightenment A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
