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chinaxiahaifeng

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From: China

Registered: 2012-04-09

Posts: 15

how to use 6GB ram for 32bit archlinux

i got a 4GB ram for my laptop, but  my system can only use only 3GB.
so i want to know how to use the extra memorys?
thankyou!

~ * free -t
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3071692    1195184    1876508          0      56264     538992
-/+ buffers/cache:     599928    2471764
Swap:      1999868          0    1999868
Total:     5071560    1195184    3876376

Awebb

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Re: how to use 6GB ram for 32bit archlinux

Do some research on PAE kernel.

graysky

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Re: how to use 6GB ram for 32bit archlinux

Stop using i686. Since you appear to be new, please use code tags when posting output of commands.  It formats the output to a nice mono space font.

Last edited by graysky (2012-08-29 10:30:55)

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chinaxiahaifeng

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From: China

Registered: 2012-04-09

Posts: 15

Re: how to use 6GB ram for 32bit archlinux

Stop using i686. Since you appear to be new, please use code tags when posting output of commands.  It formats the output to a nice mono space font.

i'm sorry ok

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: how to use 6GB ram for 32bit archlinux

use google next time. closing

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