[wplug] Linux RAM Limitations?

[Eric Cooper]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:40:58PM -0400, Matthew T. Engel wrote:
> This is a bit of a naïve question, but doe the linux OS have any
> issues with using more than 4gb of ram.

Yes, the kernel has to be compiled with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y to use up to
4G, and with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y to use 4 to 64G.  On Debian, for
example, there are linux-image-NNN-bigmem flavors of kernels that are
pre-built with the latter option.

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