Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:56:10 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: 4GB Physical. Less than 3GB in Linux. |
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Jeff Chua wrote: > On 4/16/07, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote: >> Chipset limitation. It uses up most of the MMIO region above 3GB >> preventing RAM from being mapped there, and doesn't support remapping >> the covered RAM to above 4GB. Nothing the kernel can do about it. > > Well, I guess I learned the hard way. So it's better not to buy 4GB > ... it turns out to be the same as buying one with just 3GB RAM.
Except for minimal performance differences if the 3GB configuration doesn't support dual-channel mode. (Not worth the price difference to 4GB.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-- =---- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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