warning RAM

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:52:27 -0400
Dennis Veatch <dveatch at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> On Monday 02 June 2003 04:34 pm, Vern W Heesch wrote:
> > Not sure if this applies to your distro, but in Mandrake there are 2
> > different kernals and the enterprise is required for that much ram.
> > Just a thought.
> >
> 
> Not exactly, what you are thinking about is the kernel ability to use
> 3G or more. Which is an option that can be set when compiling the
> kernel. I have successfully used 1G on the standard ML9.1 distro. Mobo
> depent. You may have to append the memory size in grub or lilo.
> 

OK, let?s clear the air about this now.

The "standard" kernel will allow you to use up to 1Gb of memory.
If you have 1Gb-4Gb, you need to select the 4Gb memory model when
building your kernel.
If you have 4Gb or more, you need the 64Gb (max RAM supported on ia32)
option.  The numbers are max memory, not minimum.

I know this because I?ve seen it on systems w/ 3Gb and 8Gb of memory. 
It?s all in the Documentation (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/...).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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