[plug] Debain and big memory

[Carl Gherardi]

On 3/30/06, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:17, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Does debian provide a precompiled kernel for machines with > 4Gb of
> > memory? I've apt-cache searched with no luck so far.
> >
>
> We're talking an x64 of course aren't we? Is there any reason why a 64
> bit kernel wouldn't support it?
>

No. quad xeon box.

I'm not chasing > 4Gb per process just to make the full 8Gb available. I'm
pretty sure this is doable, but i've never tried. (CONFIG_HIGHMEM?)

Chris - 1G limit may be being imposed by shell limits. If you are using bash
try ulimit -a and see if anything pops out at you.

Carl G
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