Ubuntu - 4 GB Ram on 32 bit machine
Linux, UbuntuI have a 32bit machine at work, that has 4 gigs of RAM. In order to get my kernel to recognize the correct amount of RAM I have _ALWAYS_ customized and recompiled a new kernel, which obviously removed my ability to upgrade to the latest/greatest from the repositories.
Well, those days are over for me! This week I rebuilt my machine, and opted to use Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4 (which by the way is very stable and awesome). And since I had a fresh system, I wanted to look around and see if there was an easier way to handle my RAM challenge.
Look no further. Just install the following packages and then reboot, its just that easy.
linux-server
linux-image-server
linux-headers-server
linux-restricted-modules-server (I actually had to do the one for my kernel linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-7-server)
The result is a nicely set up, compiz enabled, Gnome environment, but with a whopping 4 gb of memory.
sudo apt-get install linux-server linux-image-server linux-headers-server linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-7-server # # Here is the Mem section from running 'top' # Mem: 4040568k total, 3833644k used, 206924k free, 87580k buffers
"Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap"
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