Re: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 09:56:12AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >Let me start with a disclaimer - I am not a hardware person! > >I am using Oracle VirtualBox (v 4.2.6 r82870) as a testbed for Wheezy >Testing before upgrading my production linux computer.  The software is >instal

RE: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
-Original Message- From: Claudius Hubig [mailto:debian_1...@chubig.net] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 11:34 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation Dear Stephen, please do not post HTML to the list[1]. Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am us

Re: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/3/2013 8:56 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am using Oracle VirtualBox (v 4.2.6 r82870) as a testbed for Wheezy > Testing before upgrading my production linux computer. The software is > installed on my 64 bit Dell Inspiron laptop with 8 GB of RAM running MS Win > > 7 Professional as the p

Re: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-03 Thread Claudius Hubig
Dear Stephen, please do not post HTML to the list[1]. Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am using Oracle VirtualBox (v 4.2.6 r82870) as a testbed for Wheezy > Testing before upgrading my production linux computer. The software is > installed on my 64 bit Dell Inspiron laptop with 8 GB of RAM running M

Re: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > It was with a fair amount of surprise that I discovered, entirely by > chance, that according to KInfoCenter that the system is using only > 4.47 GB of total physical memory!!! Please post the output of "free" and the output of "dmesg | grep BIOS-e820". Those will