Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 1997 20:36:50 +0200 | From | Alessandro Suardi <> | Subject | Re: > 1GB RAM on x86 ? |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <m0wjrP3-0005FfC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>, > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > >Get used to 1Gb or 2Gb PC's they will be the norm for top end P6 servers. > >Im sure people will be happy to run NT on them if nothing else works. Folks > >are already tweaking other Unix systems to support the full 36bits on > >the P6 because there are needs for it. > > I wouldn't bet that NT supports 2GB of RAM - they used to have a 2G/2G > user/kernel virtual memory split, but I'm told the new NT's do (or are > expected to do) the same thing as Linux - 3G/1G. >
NT4.0sp2 is still doing 2+2 for what I read about configuring Oracle for NT, fun is that Win95 does 3+1 "as Linux" -- very likely the *only* thing it does ;)
Reason seemed to be that Win95 kernels aren't expected to do "so much" as NT ones.
Ciao,
--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>
Linux kernel-2.1.42 libc-5.4.23 gcc-2.7.2.1 binutils-2.8.1.0.1
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