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From: Daniel Blakeley <daniel@msc.cornell.edu>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Large memory system
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:36:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990130083631.B9427@msc.cornell.edu> (raw)

Hi,

I've jumped the gun a little bit and recommended a Professor buy 4GB
of RAM on a Xeon machine to run Linux on and he did.  After he got it
I read the large memory howto which states that the max memory size
for Linux 2.2.x is 2GB physical/2GB virtual.  The memory size seems to
limited by the 32bit nature of the x86 architecture.  The Xeon seems
to have a 36bit memory addressing mode.  Can Linux be easily expanded
to use the 36bit addressing?

Thanks for any info on the subject.

- Daniel (Who needs to read more before recommending computers.)

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             reply	other threads:[~1999-01-30 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-01-30 13:36 Daniel Blakeley [this message]
1999-01-30 17:00 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-02-08 11:24   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-02-08 15:31     ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-02-09 22:57       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-02-01 15:59 ` Rik van Riel
1999-02-08 11:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-02-08 20:33 Manfred Spraul
1999-02-10 14:25 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-02-10 17:02 Manfred Spraul
1999-02-11 11:12 ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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