4GB memory

Giles Orr gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Apr 2 14:05:55 UTC 2008


The computer I mentioned earlier has arrived.  Vista was rather
ungenerous in repartitioning: the machine has a 320GB drive and Vista
takes up 20GB but when asked to shrink the partition Vista would only
allow that it could give up 135GB.  Defragging didn't change that.  If
anyone has suggestions on this I'd be happy to hear them, but that's
not my main reason for writing.

I bought the machine with 4GB of memory (4 sticks of 1GB).  I wasn't
surprised to see Vista displaying 3.2GB, although it amuses me to no
end that you need 2GB to run it decently and you can't use more than
3GB ... that's a pretty small window of opportunity.  But I was
surprised to find that Debian testing displays very much the same
thing with "free", 3287MB even after I installed and booted kernel
2.6.24-1-686-bigmem.  I didn't change any boot params, do I need to?
"lshw" lists the motherboard as a "OFM586" made by "Dell," which
doesn't sound right, and it does see the 4GB.  The chipset is Intel.
I'm hoping there's something fairly simple that I'm missing.  I don't
believe there's a limitation in the BIOS, I looked there.  Any other
suggestions welcome.

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