Maximum Ram for 32- or 64- bit Puppies

[Fishy]

Simple question, what is the maximum ram that Puppy (Linux) can see/use?

I put together a AM3 system, dual core processor and installed 4 gig of DDR3 ram (2 sticks). System info shows 3374 MB memory, 197 MB used. Does this mean that I have a defective stick of ram?

Cheers

Puppy 4.32 V3

[rjbrewer]

Simple question, what is the maximum ram that Puppy (Linux) can see/use?

I put together a AM3 system, dual core processor and installed 4 gig of DDR3 ram (2 sticks). System info shows 3374 MB memory, 197 MB used. Does this mean that I have a defective stick of ram?

Cheers

Puppy 4.32 V3

Maximum Linux can see is about 3.5gb; think it's a 32bit os limitation;
not sure.

[rcrsn51]

Do you have on-board video or a separate video card?

[Fishy]

On board video Radeon HD3300. SidePort memory 128 meg DDR3 but maximum shared memory 512MB.

Mystery solved I think.

[rcrsn51]

There is a nice explanation here of other ways that your OS eats up memory.

[Lobster]

what is the maximum ram that Puppy (Linux) can see/use?

I think Puppy is set for 4 gig
Any Linux (including Puppy) with a different kernel setting can use 64 gig
A 64 bit Puppy like Fatdog could use more
http://puppylinux.org/news/releases/fat ... -released/

[rjbrewer]

More about the 3.5gb limit.

http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-questi ... ry-limits/

[Fishy]

Thanks for all the help and tips. I have read some of the articles already.

Nicest thing about Puppy is the people on the forum.

[Puppyt]

Rehashing an old thread, in a rush but will chase this 3.5ish Gb RAM limit issue up in the appropriate avenues at a later time.
I have a large-ish workstation with an 8-core i7-2600 3.4GHz CPU, 20Gb DDR3 RAM, and 3 HDD's - a 160GB and two 1 TB drives I used for backups on other computers, in the process of getting culled. So I installed TahrPup64 6.0.6, Linux 3.14.79 (i686)...

What the...?

Well it seems I have been running FSLInt on the slow boat to China - accidentally running Fslint on a fresh install of 32-bit TahrPup, when I thought it was 64-bit. Took a day and a half to process duplicate files on *one* TB drive - I gave up on having both storage drives compared. Will report back if TahrPup64 also fails to make use of all the RAM I have in this machine.


UPDATE: Hmm well a systemic brain-fart had occurred, of unusual proportions even if I say so myself... a fresh install of TahrPup64 3.14.79(x86_64) is registering all 20GB RAM. Soon to test improved processing speed in fslint...

Update: Upgraded the TahrPup64 kernel to 4.9.30, fslint with 32-bit compatibility loaded seems to be chugging along using 17GB of 20GB available.