[wplug] Linux RAM Limitations?

[terry mcintyre]

The 32 bit flavor does have issues. It's hard to actually access a full 4 Gbytes, actually. A bit of googling will reveal the efforts needed to access as much RAM as possible on a 32-bit system.

The 64 bit flavor of Linux can address far more memory.
 
Terry McIntyre
UNIX for hire
software development / systems administration / security

terrymcintyre at yahoo.com

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From: Matthew T. Engel <mengel at allegheny.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 1:40:58 PM
Subject: [wplug] Linux RAM Limitations?




 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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This is a bit of a naïve question, but doe the linux OS have
any issues with using more than 4gb of ram.  I’ve never worked with a system
that had more than 2GB.
 

  
 

Thank you in advance.
 

  
 



Matthew T. Engel
 

Systems Administrator
 

Allegheny
 College, Department
of Computer Science
 

Meadville,
 PA 16335
 

mengel at allegheny.edu
 

mtengel at andrew.cmu.edu
 

(814) 332-2906
 

  
 




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