From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dukat.scot.redhat.com (sct@dukat.scot.redhat.com [195.89.149.246]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA31387 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:54:59 -0400 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14120.65367.60211.158632@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:54:47 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Hello In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "James E. King, III" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie List-ID: Hi, On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:28:07 -0400, "James E. King, III" said: > 1. If I purchase a Quad Xeon 550 with 4 GB of memory, will Linux work > on it? (I saw the whole thing about tweaking kernel parameters to > change from a 3:1 split to a 2:2 split) It _will_ work, but by default will only use 1GB. The most it can use if you recompile the kernel is 2GB. However, we have plans to support 64GB cleanly --- watch this space. :) --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/