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SubjectRe: [Lse-tech] Re: maximum possible memory limit ..
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
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http://www.hailfinger.org/

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