newbie requests advice.

Sean Dilda agrajag at scyld.com
Mon Jun 18 08:01:26 PDT 2001


On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:30:35PM -0700, Adam Shand wrote:
> 
> > * Some of our jobs can use upwards of 4Gb of RAM, from my understanding
> >   3Gb is the maximum that a single process can address with 2.4 kernel.
> >   Is this limitation something that Network Virtual Memory can help with?
> 
> No. You'll need a real 64-bit chip for this.

Err.. not quite.  The 2.4 kernel supports up to 64G of RAM on an ia32
machine.
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