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Re: Memory lock failed

From Francois <danzas@9online.fr>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject Re: Memory lock failed
Date 2011-08-20 17:08 +0200
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On 20/08/2011 14:45, philo wrote:

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> More than likely you are booting to single mode using the 32bit kernel
> which cannot address more than 4 gigs of ram.
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> To access the full amount of ram you will need to boot to the 64bit kernel
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> Supposedly you can boot the the 64 bit kernel by holding down the "6"
> and the "4" keys while booting
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> I am no mac expert though

You are right on, philo. When I ran those memtest tests, I was under 
Snow Leopard, and maybe the kernel that appeared in Single User Mode 
(SUM) was 32 bits. Nevertheless memtest took nearly all the memory fro 
testing it (about 23 GB) but could not, of course lock it.
  Now I am under  Lion ( OS X 10.7.1 ) and, when under SUM, it is well 
specified that the kernel is 64 bits : "Kernel is LP64"
When running memtest, it says : "Attempting memory lock ... locked 
successfully".
Thanks to you this "lock mystery" is solved and I'll be much more 
confident in memtest results in the future.
Very best regards.

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Memory lock failed Francois <xanrov@numericable.fr> - 2011-08-19 22:10 +0200
  Re: Memory lock failed philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-08-20 07:45 -0500
    Re: Memory lock failed Francois <danzas@9online.fr> - 2011-08-20 17:08 +0200
      Re: Memory lock failed philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-08-20 16:11 -0500
    Re: Memory lock failed Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> - 2011-08-20 18:06 -0600
      Re: Memory lock failed Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-20 21:04 -0400
        Re: Memory lock failed Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> - 2011-08-21 16:10 -0600
          Re: Memory lock failed Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-21 19:04 -0400
    Re: Memory lock failed dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-08-21 12:56 +1200
      Re: Memory lock failed philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-08-20 21:37 -0500
        Re: Memory lock failed dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-08-21 17:17 +1200
          Re: Memory lock failed nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2011-08-21 02:32 -0600
            Re: Memory lock failed dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-08-22 00:38 +1200
              Re: Memory lock failed Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-21 09:18 -0400
                Re: Memory lock failed dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-08-22 01:34 +1200
          Re: Memory lock failed philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-08-21 07:15 -0500
            Re: Memory lock failed dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2011-08-22 01:04 +1200
              Re: Memory lock failed philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-08-21 08:27 -0500
  Re: Memory lock failed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2011-08-20 15:13 +0000
    Re: Memory lock failed Francois <danzas@9online.fr> - 2011-08-21 10:14 +0200

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