[mythtv-users] I've lost 1 gig of ram

Mike Holden mythtv at mikeholden.org
Mon Feb 16 10:31:14 UTC 2009


John Drescher wrote:
>> Bit of weirdness is that if I __disable__ memory remapping option in the
>> bios, then I get 3Gb of memory available within Linux. I thought it was
>> supposed to be the other way round?
>>
> Yes, It is supposed to be the other way around.
>
> Are you 100% sure that you are under 64 bit fedora?
>
> uname -a
>
> should tell you that the kernel is 64 bit or not:
>
> jmd0 ~ # uname  -a
> Linux jmd0.comcast.net
> 2.6.26.8-openvz-ext4-tickless-00008-ga65ea96-dirty #28 SMP Sat Feb 7
> 17:3553 EST 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
> GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> the difference is a 32 bit kernel will have x86 instead of x86_64

Yes, it's definitely 64 bit. There are a small handful of i386 RPMs
installed, as a result of Wine dependencies, but everything else is
x86_64, especially the kernel and core libraries.
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