Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-86.154.251.123-20130821152209/@comment-1757231-20130822114903

Simplest wrote: Malsf21 wrote: Simplest wrote: Malsf21 wrote: 84.92.142.203 wrote: buy that i mean i have 5.89 gbs of ram usable but the drop down menu will only give me 1gb or lower A quick note: are you using Windows, Mac or Linux? This would really help.

Check your Task Manager (should you be in Windows). If the amount of RAM being reserved/not used is less than 1 GB, that may be the problem.

Also, 5.89 is quite a strange number. Just sayin' I also found 5.89GB a bit odd. I did do some research and came up with the conclusion that its 5.89GB that's being occupied by the computer. Usually the amount of RAM is 6GB. The OS keeps a couple MB out of use for emergency-type actions such as quickly terminating a malicious program or saving vital information.

Oh yeah, I know that. Though, 6 GB is quite odd, as *almost* all systems use binary compilers, so  6GB wouldn't be convenient to make. Usually, it's in powers of 2, such as 512MB, 1GB, 2GB,4GB,8GB, etc.

The only majorly used comiler (that I know of) that runs non-binary compilers is Google's OS, which can run binary or base-16. TIL Some laptops sold present day have 6GB RAM built in.


 * o NO WAY!

My bad then.

I feel that we are swaying from the original topic.