On 07/04/11 14:04, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
I run 8gb of ram on my laptop (64 Bit) and Ubuntu recognises 7.5gb of it, Not too sure what you guys are getting at to be honest.On 7 April 2011 13:54, Lee Williams<lee.willy1977.willi...@gmail.com> 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.
Won't he be fine with the amounts he intends to add? Dave
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