On 2008-10-26, TomTom <tt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Terry Porter wrote:
>> I've just read that Vista32 can only use 3GB of RAM and Vista64 is
>> limited to 4GB of RAM, what's up with that ?
>
> What does Linux actually do with that 8GB of ram?
Whatever it likes. Heaps of file cache and buffer space. Plenty of room
for virtual machines...
The most amazing question is what does Linux actually do with 16MB of
RAM (Linksys WRT54GL - MIPS Broadcom - wireless router):
root@slinky:~# uptime
12:44:13 up 149 days, 18:22, load average: 1.85, 1.35, 0.65
Mem: 13564K used, 744K free, 0K shrd, 980K buff, 4848K cached
=============================================================
Or perhaps using my Linksys NSLU2 (ARM-b processor - XScale-IXP42x)
which uses double the memory:
gregory@slug:~$ uptime
12:56:43 up 149 days, 18:34, load average: 1.16, 1.03, 1.01
Mem: 29104K used, 1196K free, 0K shrd, 13068K buff, 6376K cached
=============================================================
Linux scales from the extremely small to the extremely large.
Vista? XP?
Pffft! Not even in the game.
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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