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    SubjectRe: 2.4.4 kernel reports wrong amount of physical memory
    Rik van Riel wrote:
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    > On Mon, 14 May 2001, Jeff Golds wrote:
    >
    > > Ahh, it's totally obvious. 1 GB option = 890 MB, 4 GB option =
    > > 4GB. Can I assume a linear relation and get 66.2 MB when I
    > > select the 64 MB option?
    >
    > Where did you get the mythical "1GB" option?
    >
    > Last I looked we had "off", "4GB" and "64GB" ;)
    >

    Good try, except:

    If you are compiling a kernel which will never run on a machine with
    more than 1 Gigabyte total physical RAM, answer "off" here (default
    choice and suitable for most users). This will result in a "3GB/1GB"
    split: 3GB are mapped so that each process sees a 3GB virtual memory
    space and the remaining part of the 4GB virtual memory space is used
    by the kernel to permanently map as much physical memory as
    possible.

    If the machine has between 1 and 4 Gigabytes physical RAM, then
    answer "4GB" here.



    1 GB is not more than 1 GB so "off" is the correct choice, according to the docs.

    Oh I get it NOW. "Off" means the docs are just plain "off".

    -Jeff


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    Jeff Golds
    jgolds@resilience.com
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