RAM ?

The only place for all Non Celestia Discussion/Stuff
Avatar
Topic author
cartrite
Posts: 1978
Joined: 15.09.2005
With us: 19 years 2 months
Location: Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, USA Greate Grandfother from Irshava, Zakarpattia Oblast Ukraine

RAM ?

Post #1by cartrite » 16.04.2008, 16:07

I just installed another 2 GB of RAM and the system reports 3.86 total on my openSuse 10.2 64 bit system. I'm already pretty sure that Windows will only see 3 GB since it is a 32 bit system. Does anyone's system report that they have 4 GB? Or is 3.86 some kind of maximum?
cartrite
VivoBook_ASUSLaptop X712JA_S712JA Intel(R) UHD Graphics 8gb ram. Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz, 1190 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) 8 GB ram. Running on Windows 11 and OpenSuse 15.4

Avatar
selden
Developer
Posts: 10192
Joined: 04.09.2002
With us: 22 years 2 months
Location: NY, USA

Re: RAM ?

Post #2by selden » 16.04.2008, 17:37

If you're running a 64bit OS and don't see all 4GB in user mode, then there's something wrong with the system software configuration. 32bit OSs can't access the part of the 4GB of RAM which is in the address range of the I/O space.
Selden

Avatar
Topic author
cartrite
Posts: 1978
Joined: 15.09.2005
With us: 19 years 2 months
Location: Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, USA Greate Grandfother from Irshava, Zakarpattia Oblast Ukraine

Re: RAM ?

Post #3by cartrite » 16.04.2008, 18:04

My 64 bit OS doesn't see 0.14 GB or about 140 mb. Just wondered why.
cartrite
VivoBook_ASUSLaptop X712JA_S712JA Intel(R) UHD Graphics 8gb ram. Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz, 1190 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) 8 GB ram. Running on Windows 11 and OpenSuse 15.4

Tech Sgt. Chen
Posts: 187
Joined: 04.11.2003
With us: 21 years
Location: Northern NJ/USA

Re: RAM ?

Post #4by Tech Sgt. Chen » 09.08.2008, 01:16

I hope I didn't misunderstand your post but, if you're operating system is 32bits and, it's a Windows system, some of the RAM will be reserved for system devices. This may be the cause for your system displaying less than it's full compliment of RAM. On 64bit Windows systems, the full amount of RAM should be displayed. On both of my previous 32bit Windows systems (Windows 98SE, Windows XP), some of the RAM was allocated to other devices and resulted in a RAM display that was slightly less than what I knew was installed.
Hi guys. Listen, they're telling me the uh,
generators won't take it, the ship is breaking apart and all that. Just, FYI.
(Athlon X2 6000+ Dual Core 3Ghz, 8GB DDR2-800, 500GB SATA 7200RPM HD, 580W,
GeForce 9600GT-512, 64Bit, Vista Home Premium)


Return to “Petit Bistro Entropy”