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SubjectRe: Configurable larger physical memory
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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