[nycbug-talk] memory and cpu question on a new setip

[Jonathan Vanasco]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 4:35 PM, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:

> There are things like "PCI bounce areas", or areas used for AGP  
> buffers.
> You can generally get to 3.5G by changing video memory/AGP aperture.
> Occasionally, if you are lucky, you can get 3.7G.

ah.  i'm at 3.5 now.  3.7 would be great.

> However, to get full 4G, I would suggest x64 kernel. I'm not sure  
> if PAE
> will fix the "PCI reserved areas" issue.

> Uh, that message says SMP *did* work. It detected two CPUs.
> No, two cores for all purposes means two CPUs.
> Why do you say "wouldn't boot"? What was the error?
it just hanged on a blank screen

but i tried installing it again, and now i'm using the SMP. so thanks.

On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> How about an amd64 kernel?

will they work on intel chips & boards? i had no idea.




// Jonathan Vanasco

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