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allocate and use the resources promised to them.
== “Low memory” (x86 specific) ==Because of specifics of architecture of Intel's x86 processors, the RAM of the
computer can't be used uniformly.
The most important memory area is so called “low memory”, a part of memory
(or, if the computer has less RAM than 832MB, the size of the RAM).
64-bit kernels (i.e x86_64, ia64 and others) can access all memory directly and are not used "low memory" area.
=== Utilization ===
The lower bound estimation of low memory utilization is