(gah! I'm on a keyboad with a broken comma key!) Generally speaking you're talking about something that's hardware-specific.
My general rule of thumb is PCI Express hardware = cannot see the full 4GB with a 32-bit OS. I've got a pair of SuperMicro servers; PDSME+ Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM SATA drives in a RAID10. The only difference is the RAID card: one has a PCI-X SATA controller and the other a PCI-E SAS controller. The machine with the SAS controller sees ~3.6GB RAM and the machine with the SATA controller sees all 4GB. Both are VMware boxes - the machine w/the SAS controller runs ESXi and the machine w/the SATA controller runs CentOS 4 with VMware Server 1.0.x. Phillip Partipilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> previously uttered: > Happy Friday ladies & gents... > > Ok, on a 32-bit system, you generally cannot get a full 4gb of RAM > available, at least without PAE, however I just threw 4gb of RAM into one of > our older Xeon servers, a Supermicro Superserver 6012L-6, running 2000 > Server standard, SP4, and the system properties dialog shows all 4gb. WTF? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
