Did the RAM limits change for Home edition for 16.05.2 to 4GB?

Hi All,

We haven't received any volunteer to provide us both, Access ID and the SSH access to their appliance for investigation. Our Dev Team cannot really proceed further until we find a machine to troubleshoot, that has this issue ongoing.

Thanks

I have just upgraded a Test VM from 16.05.1.MR-1 to 16.05.3.MR3.SFW-183

VM had 2 CPUs and 8GB assigned to it. (VMWorkstation)

last reboot and look - Memory limit has changed! Sophos, I find it hard that you cannot replicate this issue, even in a VM Environment.

I've just installed this same version to a Hyper-V VM and the memory is showing as 6GB (almost).

I've just installed this same version to a Hyper-V VM and the memory is showing as 6GB (almost).

It all depends on your memory map. You'll never have the full 6G there even on a 6G vm.

cat /proc/iomem | grep "System RAM" 

and add up the sizes of the ranges it should be very close to what's above.

If it the last memory area ends at ‭17FFFFFFF‬ that's the impact of mem=6G kicking in

Basically this problem impacts anyone that has a bios/uefi that remaps large chunks of their memory beyond the 4G barrier.

In my case on my hardware. There's about 2G of my 8G of memory below the 4G mark, and the remaining 6G starts at the 4G memory address, so that's why i get less that 4G usable on an 8G system.