[ale] memory limits for Linux servers?

[Geoff Harrison]

On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:30:27PM -0400, Steven A DuChene wrote:
> While talking on the phone yesterday with a local supplier about an ATX
> case I am interested in, I mentioned it is for a Linux system and he
> responded with info that they have started building Linux systems since
> they have been getting more requests for them. He told me about some
> servers they are assembling with 4 way 400MHz Xeon processors and 2.5Gb
> of main memory with RedHat 5.1 but they have been unable to get the
> system to recognize more than 1Gb of memory (OH, I wish I had problems
> like this with my systems! :). Anyone know of this problem? Is it true
> at 2.0.whatever that is included with 5.1 and is this still true in the
> newer 2.1.X kernels?
> -- 
> Steve DuChene              sad at ale.org

in the 1.2.12x kernels I think the upper bound has increased to 2 gigs or
something like that.  check www.linuxhq.com I think.
Elliot says you can put up to 3gigs in if you patch your kernel.


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