I think testers are always welcome.. :)

http://imagebin.org/index.php?mode=image&id=263115

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NewRTInstall

sam

On Thu, 4 Jul 2013 20:09:16 -0400
 Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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