Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ? | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2002 00:16:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 16GB ram, 269,424kB reserved > 32GB ram, 532,080kB reserved, usable low mem: 352 MB > 64GB ram ??
64Gb basically you can forget
> Which function does the reserved memory fulfill ? > Is it all for paging ?
A lot of it is the page structs (64bytes per page - which really should be nearer the 32 some rival Unix OS's achieve on x86) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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