Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Sat, 25 Apr 1998 15:45:22 +0400 (MSD) | Subject | Re: memory |
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23-Apr-98 22:04 you wrote: > > I have a feeling this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find it.. > > How much RAM is linux supposed to be able to handle? I was trying to > run 2.1.91 on a x86-box with 2GB RAM, and it crashed (rebooted) > instantly (after LILO loaded the kernel) with mem=2048M and > mem=1024M. It runs fine with mem=512M. I haven't tried anything > between 512 and 1024 yet. > You could find option to support more then 950Mb in include/asm-i386/page.h
> Are there any plans to support 4GB RAM (on x86)? And/or more than 4GB? > I've been told the architecture supports 64GB maximum. > Linux could support 3.9Gb (or something like). You could not have more then 4Gb physical RAM with IA32. Merced will solve this problem :-)
P.S. And there are 64Tb (not 64Gb) limit of "virtual" RAM (with usage of segments and Linux does not use segments much), but still only 4Gb physical RAM+ROM+...
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