Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:13:10 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: x86-32 PAE-enabled kernel fails to boot with 64GB of RAM |
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On 12/06/2011 02:26 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Quoting from Documentation/vm/highmem.txt: > " > The general recommendation is that you don't use more than 8GiB on a > 32-bit machine - although more might work for you and your workload, > you're pretty much on your own - don't expect kernel developers to > really care much if things come apart. > " >
Still, I suspect the failure to cap the memory space... it still *should* at least limp along. But yes, at some point the wheels really will just come off the bus.
Does specifying a kernel"mem=" option (thereby capping the memory artificially) work?
-hpa
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