Ok, I know for a fact that I have 4 gigs of physical ram, but Ubuntu tells me I only have 2.8. Why is this??? Any help would be appreciated.
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Ok, I know for a fact that I have 4 gigs of physical ram, but Ubuntu tells me I only have 2.8. Why is this??? Any help would be appreciated.
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Are you running 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu ?
32 bit will see much less than 4 gig, and if you have integrated graphics taking shared memory, you will be left with even less.
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Yea, it's 32 bit (unfortunately). As long as I'm still using all of it, I'm ok, I guess, I just want to make sure that 1.2 isn't just going to waste.
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Re: WHere is all my ram???
So the OS can "see" all four gigs of ram you need to use the 64 bit version of Ubuntu
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Doesn't ubuntu has PAE?
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The desktop version does not have PAE. You can install the kernel from the server and get that working.
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Well yeah, it is going to waste. A 32-bit system can only see 4 GiB of RAM in total, INCLUDING any memory that is sitting inside peripherals in your computer or chipsets on your motherboard.Originally Posted by bustedbit
So, if you have a 512MiB graphics card, that 512 MiB is taken out of the 4 GiB of addressable memory. That portion of your RAM is sitting idle, unaddressable.
If you use a PAE kernel or a 64-bit system, then you have much more address space, and the parts of your computer that have their own memory can be addressed without overlapping your RAM.
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