From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:27:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" Subject: Re: Hello In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: "James E. King, III" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, James E. King, III wrote: > 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) > Should I just buy 2GB - will I be able to use the extra 2GB? You won't be able to use the extra 2GB without some effort. Current plans seem to be headed towards keeping the current 3G/1G split. Fwiw, if you're going to spend that much money, why not purchase an Alpha? That way you'll be able to grow beyond the 4GB as your data grows. > 2. Can I create a large (let's say 1GB) ramdisk or memory filesystem? I think someone created patches that make a ramdisk out of the really high memory. Try doing a search of the linux-kernel archives -- I remember seeing it withing the past 3 or 4 months. Hope this helps! -ben -- 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/