[ltp] 4 GigaBytes in a thinkpad T61p

[Jose Celestino]

Words by Jay C Vollmer [Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:11:59AM -0600]:
> Greetings.
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> Is anyone out there successfully using 4 Gigabytes of RAM under 64-bit Li=
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> on a ThinkPad T61p?
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Yes.

[japc@morgoth:~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3988812    3867860     120952          0     110548    2322824
-/+ buffers/cache:    1434488    2554324
Swap:            0          0          0

> I've read of all sorts of problems on this system under 64-bit Vista.
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> I've been running fairly contentedly under 2G on 64-bit openSuSE, but I'd=
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> like to add more RAM.  Incidentally, Crucial has a 4G upgrade for less th=
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> $50.00. =20
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> Does anyone out there in Linux-thinkpad land have any topical wisdom to p=
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> along?
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