On 7 April 2011 13:54, Lee Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not a problem installing 32bit on a machine with > ~3.5GB ram... rather > the memory after the ~3.5GB or so is not "dedicated to system resources"; > rather, system resources have used up the remaining memory *addresses*, so > the memory cannot be seen nor used by anything, as it has no address. When > 2GB RAM is installed, system components taking up 1GB or so of addresses has > no effect, as there are 4GB of addresses in total, meaning 3GB of addresses > are left available for the 2GB of RAM. >
I had to read that a few times, and it still makes no sense. Fact is an install of Ubuntu on 32-bit system _can_ see and _use_ all of the RAM. Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
