Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:57:52 +0200 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit .. |
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Dave Hansen wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >>Realistic limit currently is ~16GB with an IA32 box. For more you need >>an 64bit architecture. > > > Let's say 32GB :) It boots just fine with 2.5.68, no additional > patches. There's even half a gig of lowmem free.
Cool. Sorry to be pestering about the 64-bit limits, but can we really use 2^64 bytes of memory on ia64/ppc64/x86-64 etc.? (AFAIK, 64-bit arches don't suffer from a small ZONE_LOWMEM.)
Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
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