Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Patrick Schnorbus
/cache: 121852 394664 > Swap: 498004 8728 489276 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux hm269-26876 2.2.19pre17 #1 Fri Aug 10 09:28:54 EDT 2001 i686 unknown > > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian W

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? > > Wayne

Re: Long lag before messages make the list [was "Re: 512Meg of Ram"]

2001-10-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:22:59PM +1300, Adam Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 20:45, Cameron Matheson wrote: > If this is affecting more than just myself, the Debian-user lag is > becoming too large. I wrote a reply virtually identical to Cameron's > about 30 minutes lat

Re: Long lag before messages make the list [was "Re: 512Meg of Ram"]

2001-10-28 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, I've caught up with the "test" posts. So don't reply. Let's hope the backlog/time being taken to distribute messages is resolved (it would be a thankless task if I didn't thank those right now working to resolve it :-) Regards, Adam

Long lag before messages make the list [was "Re: 512Meg of Ram"]

2001-10-28 Thread Adam Warner
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 20:45, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:19:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux > > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile.

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? The Debian 2.2r3 precompiled standard kernel finds 512 MB RAM just fine. Cheers :o) Johnny :o)

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Adam Warner
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 10:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? > > Wayne Not that I've heard. Just "cat /proc/meminfo" to see if i

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread nate
said: > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard > that Linux does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel > recompile. Is this true? maybe true on older kernels (1.x and 2.0 ?) but not true on 2.2 or 2.4 at least..you may have to tweak lilo to tell linux how

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that > Linux does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is > this true? No. You can have up to 1 gig of ram before you need to start messing with the kernel's high mem

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:19:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? Where did you hear this?

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? I don't know but you can find out: run free (or top or cat /proc/meminfo or some other program

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:19:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? No... I think you may have to recompile for ram>=1G, but that&

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Jens Gecius
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? No, it isn't. If you have more than approx. 868MB, then the all above isn't used without a recompil

512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread waynes
I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? Wayne