Sunday, August 31, 2008

[THIN] Re: ram

the /PAE switch? 

this is what i get for burying myself in 64bit servers for the past two years.

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@gmail.com> wrote:

Because the system is sucking up a bunch of it before the OS starts  (PCI-X, video, etc)…  You can get some of it back by using the /PAE switch (yes, even on standard) to map that memory back.

 

Joe

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Greg Reese
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 7:01 PM
To: Thin
Subject: [THIN] ram

 

why would a server have 4096mb of ram installed but only report 3455mb installed?  i am looking over some servers for a friend of mine and this seems odd.




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