On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Bill Szkotnicki wrote:

> In order to maximize the amount of memory available for processes on my quad
> (500mhz xeon p3's) I applied Alan Cox's kernel patch which you can get from
> ftp.linux.org.uk. My linux-smp machine has 2GB of memory and after applying
> the Cox patch to the kernel provided with the redhat 6.0 distribution
> (2.2.10) an individual process can now allocate about 1300MB. Apparently
> this can be increased somewhat by further patching but I haven't gone there
> yet.
> If anyone knows how to get this limit larger I, for one,  would like to hear
> about it.

Take a look at http://reality.sgi.com/kanoj_engr/bigmem.html

Regards,

-trond

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