[ale] Why doesn't any OS see my memory?

[James Sumners]

I don't know about Windows but do you have the BIGMEM option enabled
in your Linux kernel?

On 10/6/05, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry to interrupt everyone's trolling for Aaron, but I have an actual
> technical question.
>
>  We have a bunch of newish Dell workstations with 4 gig of RAM.  The BIOS
> sees it all.  But when we boot to Linux or Windows only about 3.5 Gig is
> there.  I mean that the various tools to display the RAM should only 3.5
> Gig.  Actually, Windows and Linux show slightly different amounts, but both
> are significantly below 4 gig.
>
>  Is this normal?  Has anyone else seen this?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Michael
>
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