Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:28:03 -0400 | From | John Kodis <> | Subject | Re: Configurable larger physical memory |
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On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> writes: > > > > To make it more difficult for M$ paid testers not to tune the amount of > > physical memory Linux uses, I added a kernel configure for that (Intel > > arch only). You can select one, two, three, or almost four GB of physical > > memory (which leaves 192M for the app - should be sufficient for a > > file/web server). It also updates vmlinux.lds correctly. > > Sometime in 2.1.x there was a similar option, but it was removed > again because too many people screwed it up.
The way I remember this was that folks set this to match however much memory they had installed, and that was causing problems. Limiting it to full GB ranges should eliminate this problem.
I also seem to recall that the memory divide had to be an integral power of two, so the only useful values were 1GB and 2GB. Am I misremembering here?
-- John Kodis
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