Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:11:16 +0100 | From | Michael Vergoz <> | Subject | Re: High Mem Options |
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Hi Tim,
Every system can NOT manage more than 4GB memory on x86 processor (32 bits processor). Because the system addressing is limited to 32Bits, well memory > 4GB is used generaly for memory spare...
Best regards, Michael
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 06:28:36 -0500 "Reed, Timothy A" <timothy.a.reed@lmco.com> wrote:
> Hello all, > Yet another quick question...is there any down side to using the > 64GB option over the 4GB option if the machine only has 2GB of RAM onboard?? > I would think this would be a performance issue? Does the kernel only use > the translation table if it has to access any memory location over 4GB? > > TIA > Tim Reed > Email: timothy.a.reed@lmco.com > > - > 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/ - 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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