8.04 plus 8GB RAM

[richard]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:24:18 -0700 (PDT)
eduardo fiss beloni <eduardobeloni at yahoo.com.br> wrote:

>
> 
> --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com>
> > Subject: Re: 8.04 plus 8GB RAM
> > To: eduardobeloni at yahoo.com.br, "Ubuntu user technical support, not
> > for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Date:
> > Monday, July 21, 2008, 4:23 PM eduardo fiss beloni wrote:
> > > Hello, I've installed 8.04 desktop version in a
> > intel xeon 2.5 GHz 8 cores server with 8GB of RAM but
> > ubuntu does not recognize all memory, but only 2.5GB...
> > > 
> > > What should I do to solve this problem?
> > > 
> > > Thanks, Eduardo Beloni
> > 
> > Are you installing the 64-bit version of Ubuntu?
> > 
> > If you really want to install the 32-bit, version, I think
> > you will need
> > to install the server Kernel from the packages, as that one
> > has the
> > Large Memory support enabled.
> > 
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The 64  bit rt kernel recognises my 8 MB of RAM without a hitch
  /proc# cat meminfo 
MemTotal:      8148796 kB
MemFree:       1448324 kB
   
> Linux version 2.6.24-19-rt (buildd at king) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu
> 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Jul 11 23:20:22 UTC 2008
HTH
Richard