On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Paul Sutton <zl...@zleap.net> wrote:
> Would some of the missing memory be video memory perhaps which is > shared, from the main memory. Nope. That is why some RAM in a 4GB machine is inaccessible to a 32-bit OS: because the memory taken by the graphics card & other I/O devices is "in the way" and "hiding" it. That is the reason for running 64-bit on a machine with >3GB of RAM: to get at the extra memory that is inaccessible to a 32-bit OS. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
