On Thursday 04 July 2013 20:02:46 Michael Haberler did opine: > I wonder which actual limitation you guys are trying to break, except > cosmetics.. the mother of all Gcode files ;-? > > Hypothesis: any difference will be rather hard to measure (happy to be > proven wrong!) > > -m > > Am 04.07.2013 um 23:36 schrieb Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, 7/4/13, 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? > > ------------ > > > > Nope. 32 bit operating systems top out at 4 gig of RAM. The only way > > would be for there to be a new expanded memory system similar to the > > old LIM-EMS that was used on 16 bit PCs. Aaaannd that'll never happen > > since there are 64 bit operating systems.
This machine is the do it all machine here in the house Michael, a tower about 33" tall under the next desk with a quad of terrabyte drives for starters. There is no machinery tied to it, not even a cable on the parport. But it does so much else that its 500 megs into swap about 4 days after a reboot. I was hoping to quash some of that by giving it some more ram. Apparently not, ATM. :( 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> Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. 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
