[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 32bit - how much RAM can it use?

[Kingsley Turner]

On 20/12/11 09:47, Mark Lord wrote:
> As others have noted, running a PAE enabled 32-bit kernel
> will give you a 36-bit physical address space.
> I use that on multiple machines here to gain access to the full 8GB of RAM they
> have.
> Works great.
>
> No single process can access more than 3GB of user mapped RAM,
> but that's not an issue for mythtv.
>
> And the kernel will still make use of all of the RAM for page ("disk") caching
> and so forth.
>
> Go for it.  Very simple change.  Very high WAF, very low effort.
>
You're right, it's very very easy.
I just followed this:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingPAE

And now it says I have 8G available instead of 2.5G.  Awesome!

Thanks to you all!

cheers,
-Kingsley