2011/7/29 Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@wildblue.net>

This Dell DM4700 came with 2-256 mb strips, some time ago I added
2-1 gb strips for a total of 2.5 gb.

This morning I replaced the 256 mb strips with 2-2 gb for a total of
6. The bios setup screen shows 6 gb but apparently Linux is only
using half that amount, not much of an improvement!:

[bobg@box6 ~]$ free -m
total used free shared
buffers cached
Mem: 3022 719 2303 0
31 265
-/+ buffers/cache: 422 2600
Swap: 4575 0 4575

This is an up to date F-15 32 bit configured as I want it.

[bobg@box6 ~]$ uname -a
Linux box6 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jul 6 14:46:26 UTC 2011
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Must I install the 64 bit version to take advantage of the memory?
If so perhaps I could upgrade the present install to 64 and keep my
configuration or do I have to bite the bullet and do a new install.

Bob

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