On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:
> Oh I get it NOW. "Off" means the docs are just plain "off".
It is ... "off" means we do 1GB-128MB = 896MB of memory.
It would be cool if one of you two could update the docs ;)
regards,
Rik
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Brian Gerst wrote:
> >
> > It seems obvious once you know why the limits are there. The 1 GB
> > limit (actually 1024-128 MB = 896 MB) is a software limit; the 4 GB
> > and 64 GB limits are hardware limits and are exact.
>
> Even with the 4GB and 64GB options, some physical address space has to
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
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> Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> By author:Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> > > In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > You need to compile highmem support into
Rik van Riel wrote:
> Where did you get the mythical "1GB" option?
>
> Last I looked we had "off", "4GB" and "64GB" ;)
We do .. under 2.4.x
In 2.2.x we have 1 Gb and 2 GB ... 2.2.19 at least
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Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:
>
> > Ahh, it's totally obvious. 1 GB option = 890 MB, 4 GB option =
> > 4GB. Can I assume a linear relation and get 66.2 MB when I
> > select the 64 MB option?
>
> Where did you get the mythical "1GB" option?
>
> Last I looked w
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:
> Ahh, it's totally obvious. 1 GB option = 890 MB, 4 GB option =
> 4GB. Can I assume a linear relation and get 66.2 MB when I
> select the 64 MB option?
Where did you get the mythical "1GB" option?
Last I looked we had "off", "4GB" and "64GB" ;)
cheers,
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> > In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
> >
> > > You need to compile highmem support into the kernel if you want to
> > > use more th
Jeff Golds wrote:
>
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> > > In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
> > >
> > > > You need to compile highmem support into the kernel if you want to
> > > > use more than 890 MB of RAM, set it to maximum 4GB for best
> > > >
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> > In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
> >
> > > You need to compile highmem support into the kernel if you want to
> > > use more than 890 MB of RAM, set it to maximum 4GB for best
> > > performance...
> >
> > On a similar
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
>
> > You need to compile highmem support into the kernel if you want to
> > use more than 890 MB of RAM, set it to maximum 4GB for best
> > performance...
>
> On a similar note, what is the maximum physical memo
In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
> You need to compile highmem support into the kernel if you want to
> use more than 890 MB of RAM, set it to maximum 4GB for best
> performance...
On a similar note, what is the maximum physical memory supported by
the 4GB option?
Cheers, Wayne
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:
> I installed the 2.4.4 kernel on a dual P3-733 system with 1 GB
> of ECC RAM and found that /proc/meminfo reports back only 899MB
> of RAM.
> Anyone know what is going on with 2.4.4?
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You need to compile highmem support into the kerne
> I installed the 2.4.4 kernel on a dual P3-733 system with 1 GB of ECC RAM and found
>that /proc/meminfo reports back only 899MB of RAM. The 2.4.2 kernel (with RedHat
>patches from the 7.1 release) worked fine as did the 2.4.0 kernel (with RedHat
>patches from the 7.0 release).#
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