On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 07:35:28PM +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
>> ie if you're above XGB RAM do you now need to pass it to the kernel?? Or,
> on the other hand, should Linux now always see all your RAM (in principal
> anyway).
If you have more than 1GB of RAM you need to compile a special kernel. More
than 2GB and you're just wasting electricity (with 2.2 kernels anyway - not
sure if this has been changed in 2.4)
Regards,
Niall
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