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From: "Jeff MacDonald" <bignose@gmail.com>
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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject: Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram
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> > Well I hate when people say this, but I'm going to say it.. :)
> >
> > When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs without a
> > hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or something else ?
>
> One of those two.  You sure you didn't install a 64-bit version of Ubuntu?

Fairly sure :)

> > Aside, I will read up on PAE.  I'll read up about 64 bit as well, I've
> > been hesitant to make the jump only cause any word of mouth i've heard
> > said  that it's not ready for production. Maybe that's off base, it's
> > only what "i've heard"
>
> We're deploying a lot of 64 bit stuff around here.  Our experience has
> been that the OS is as solid on amd64 as it is on i386.  Server applications
> are the same.  There are, however, a lot of desktop applications that are
> still flaky on 64-bit -- mostly non-mainstream ones.  We got in a crunch
> and had to reinstall a workstation back to i386 because of it, or I would
> have filed some bug reports.

Yeah, that's likly true what you say about server vs desktop. I'm
going to slap a 64 bit copy on now and see how it does.

Jeff.